A classic case of sheep-itis

Rating: 5/10 (3 January 2008)

Ummmm sorry, Its NOT a great film!!
Lets take a quick-capsule review of why that is...
A confusing plot with parts made intentionally ambiguous is NOT clever. I can write a plot with ambiguity and absurd open ends thankyou very much...Its not that the director is somehow cleverer than all of us and can see the "hidden genius"...its just that it IS totally ambiguous and disjointed!
(eg, the character and the post box; remember that? WHAT did that mean to anyone?)
For me Donnie Darko is very much like the opening of a modern art exhibition crammed with wanna-be intellectuals. Everyone is so obsessed with what they think they are SUPPOSED to be seeing they cant see the wood for trees and realise what their looking at (when taken at FACE VALUE; ignoring hype) ..is actually nothing special.
The EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES all over again, everyone is so desperate to appear "cinema-chic" they block out reality..Nobody wants to be the one to say what they really think.
YES its a good film, NO its NOT some kind of ultra intelligent; neo-horror/sci fi classic.
Forget the hype, watch with an open mind and see it for what it is...