Donnie Darko is an unusual film with very loose plot,great editing and music.

Rating: 7/10 (11 December 2005)

Donnie Darko is an unusual film with very loose plot, cheap character development, and sci-fi, phantasmagoric occurrences to hold it together. The visuals are great, the music tightly integrated, and the rather contrived plot twists are enjoyable. It is so well edited that I kept looking for more profound insights or meaning, but they never arrived. Several profound concepts are never satisfactorily explored, and the film rests on undeveloped cliché characters. The scenes with Donnie's therapist are the most shallow and allow the frustrating consequences to unfold. There could easily have been more actual depth rather then just the pretension of such.