As nose as the plane on your face

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2005)

What is Donnie Darko all about, I mean really? I don't know and if anyone tells you they do they're a bastard liar because its one of those head-scratching setups designed to generate speculative musing on the film's thematic preoccupations. Broadly, said themes are philosophical and far reaching - the nature of being, place in the universe type questions, in other words impossible to satisfactorily resolve to any degree and if thats the kind of fantasy that makes you neck a bottle of Stolie and then forcefully cups your genitals then Darko is probably one of the best films of its type ever conceived, destined to be mulled over and picked apart for a long time, unless that is you've made the mistake of watching the idiot's guide, sorry Directors Cut that extracts all the delicious ambiguity and joins all the dots for lazy viewers. So there you have it - funny, touching, intelligently scripted, great soundtrack, emotionally stimulating, Swayze getting hauled in for child pornography - everything many films promise but don't deliver, all on the same bill! Textbook.