Is it the end of the universe or of the tangent universe?

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2005)

The world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. Our trip into the strange world of Donnie Darko begins with the title character (played brilliantly by Jake Gyllenhall) waking up in the middle of the road, on top of a mountain. Great start huh, but oh boy does it get better. Due to the fact that the troubled Donnie sees a shrink on a regular basis, sleepwalks and is visited by a 6 foot evil looking bunny rabbit telling him that the world will end doesn't always make for your ideal viewing experience. Once watched though, never forgotten.
Director Richard Kelly has created a modern masterpiece with his debut picture. The science fiction of the story is given credibility and the possibilities of the structure of time and the universe are all brought together very well. Some people might find this film hard to understand or difficult to follow but when you actually think about whats going on and what's being said it's not all that difficult. It just takes more than one viewing to get everything but it will hopefully make you question a lot of things and keep you awake for hours pondering life, the existence of God and if life is predecided.
This is one film that has rightly deserved its cult status.