Magnificent, intellectual and an eerie thriller

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2006)

*Review of the original 2001 version of Donnie Darko* This movie is a great psychological and philosophical thriller that takes place in Middlesex, Virginia during the year of 1988. The film revolves around a mentally troubled, yet intelligent teenager that is taken on a subconscious thrill ride that broadens to a vast story of incredible philosophical depth. As this movie progresses, you get to know more and more about the daily life of Donnie from his and other people's accounts. Once the movie is over, not only are you left with answers to previous events, but with so much information left to uncover and decipher. By repeatedly watching the movie and mapping out each individual detail, you can fit together many pieces of this amazing puzzle.
The http://www.donniedarko.com website also reveals a great amount of important details revolving around the concept of time travel (which has a huge impact on the resolution of the movie). I won't spoil how time travel implicates so deeply into the story, but once you've carefully inspected the website and all details that you can prospect from the movie, the film becomes even more amazing to unravel piece by piece. I recommend that if you haven't seen the movie, don't visit the website so that you don't reveal any information that you aren't supposed to know about yet.
Overall, Donnie Darko is an incredible, eerie thriller movie with great science-fiction attributes that make this movie a must-see.