Dark, humorous...ORIGINAL!

Rating: 9/10 (21 March 2002)

Most films these days consists of recycled plots and stale characters. "Donnie Darko" takes immense exception. This film is dark and disturbing, yet hilarious at times. This is not just another cult movie that film-nuts can throw into their collection and keep secret to the average new-movie renter. It deserves to be seen by anyone because it is original. It truly is something new and unique. The concept of this film seems very uninteresting...A delusional teenager has visions of a giant scary-looking bunny rabbit who tells him to committ acts of violence. Please don't be turned off. Give "Donnie" a chance. You may not take a great life lesson from it, but if anything you will be entertained. The film offers some great original dialogue (including a conversation about the sexual nature of "Smurfette", the only "female" smurf in "The Smurfs" cartoon.) and some good old fashioned strange scenes. You don't have to be a Tarantino or David Lynch fanatic to enjoy this one. I'm sure the "cult" movie lovers will eat this film up, but it really is a sharp movie.