Who cares?

Rating: 5/10 (21 March 2002)

Take a little comedy, toss in some drama, add a pinch of romance, mix the whole thing with some science fiction, and you have "Donnie Darko", which, BTW, you should not consume but flush down the garbage disposal. Novice writer/director Kelly spins a yarn about a delusional burb-dwelling WASP teen male who sees a shrink for performing misdeeds while under the spell of a monster rabbit because he's getting ready to travel through a worm hole....or something like that. With no reason to give a crap about Donnie, except that he's a cute kid, one can only sit idly watching this confused mess of a movie which counts down the time to doomsday or something and then ends in another place in space/time...as if that were even remotely interesting. Nonetheless, "Donnie Darko" scored well on this website, so go figure. There's no accounting for taste, hmmm?