Chills in the brain during the whole movie.

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2013)

The movie just grabs you from the beginning through the brain with a slow and dramatic soundtrack, which suddenly gets excited about Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) going down the hill by bike up at home, arriving at dinner time with the Darko's family, which ends in a discussion between Donnie and his sister Elizabeth (Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also his sister in real life, UOL). Soon afterwards we see that Donnie is a troubled young man, insults his parents and sisters, take drugs, have emotional problems. Suddenly the film gets a dark and somber tone with a dying voice calling by Donnie. Donnie wake up and goes outside and comes across a man dressing a rabbit costume saying to Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 12 minutes and 22 seconds.
Soon after this Donnie's room is invaded by a turbine aircraft. Donnie suddenly wakes up in a golf course and get back home and see his room destroyed. After a few days he returns to school and the film features almost all the students and teachers of the school. At the moment we think that we are watching a teenager's scary movie. But over the somber tone doesn't leave the film with the dying voice of the rabbit-man named Frank, forcing Donnie to do certain crimes. Such crimes with several consequences for the lives of all and Donnie.
I know, the story is very strange, as the film itself. But just pay attention in Richard Kelly (writer-director) to see the masterpiece that the movie is.
As said before the film looks more like a teen movie (which it is), but Kelly manages to put in the story several ideas and theories (one of them is the sexual activity of the Smurfs). Mixing a lot of elements of sci-fi like time travel, and elements of drama and teen romance. And also as someone's fate can change with just a little one thing happen.
Since the great direction and the formidable writing with great ideas, along with fabulous performances, and a final exciting. The masterpiece of Richard Kelly is creepy, hilarious, exciting and memorable.