SPOILER: This film is fantastic...

Rating: 10/10 (3 September 2004)

...not only for mood, but subject, plot development and style. IMO, this is truly a cult classic - NOT BAD for Richard Kelly's "freshman offering." This is a movie for:
1. everyone who "sees" and "hears" - and can "...connect the G** D*** DOTS...!" 2. wonders about the possibility of "time travel" - (in case you haven't noticed, you're doing it RIGHT NOW!) 3. and, for everyone who has ever felt dis-enfranchised and / or misunderstood; you are not alone....
I like this movie because it exploits seemingly unrelated events and - with Donnie Darko's heightened perceptions and "super-hero" qualities - these all appear to fall right into his hands. NOW - before all the nay-sayers start screaming at me...how many times have you looked back upon an event or a sequence of events in your own life, and seen how they played out - do you chalk it up to "coincidence" - or...? From an more mature perspective of wisdom, can you see how things have worked out BECAUSE you followed your intuition. If you HAVEN'T ever done so, then you're "living blind"...
Check this movie out...(and just in case you are wondering with what authority I heartily endorse this movie...I've seen it 175 times...!)