dark, ugly, insane, and very very pretty

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2002)

I'm not quite sure if this movie had a point to it, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. Sort of a "not shallow but still no diving at the pool" situation. It was an interesting experience to watch and I would recommend everyone check this one out on DVD when the time comes, since it was in such a limited release. Jake Gyllenhaal did a perfect job of portraying Donnie Darko, a character everyone refers to as a wierd teenager, but I viewed him as a rather normal down to earth being with typical teenager problems, but only with the rather strange ones that begin happening to him, as if god it-self picked him out to fix a paradox in space-time(yeah, just see the movie). For a writing/directing debut, the director of Donnie Darko made a damn fine effort, and I would expect even better results with future films.
9/10