Mindbendingly good fun

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2004)

Definitely worth watching, it has some extremely dark moments (pun intended) along with highly humorous situations. I especially loved the character of the so-called motivational speaker, along with his middle-aged religious nutball crazy housewife believers.
Donnie himself is played very well. He's a highly intelligent kid who gets thrown into a very weird situation involving a temporal anomaly ... what happens for the next month just doesn't make any sense to him but he manages to glue all the parts together towards the end.
Actually explaining anything about this movie before you see it could really spoil it. For me, it came on the Super Channel here in Tokyo and I had never seen it before - I was pleasantly surprised.
I guess the comparison to make would be with 12 Monkeys - if you didn't understand or enjoy the time-jumping shenanigans in that film, you won't like it in Donnie Darko.