One of the best American films released in the last 10 years

Rating: Null/10 (8 October 2004)

Donnie Darko is a simply fantastic film. Being origially promoted as a intelligent teen horror film it became so much more and it will live to become a cult classic. This film will live on as one of the seminal films of its time because it is so incredibly well made. The film was amazingly well cast and it succeeded to create suspense and drama with a shoe-string budget where as films with millions of dollars fall flat on their face.
Donnie Darko should be viewed at least twice so that you can pick out details that you may have missed during the first run through. It's an incredibly deep film and there is a lot to be inferred from the subtext. If you don't have the patience to go through it multiple times and pick things out then I'd recommend seeing the director's cut. While the film is longer and it explains a lot more of what happened and why, I feel that it sort of dumbs down the experience and hands the viewer the story rather than having them invest themselves in the film.