No Payoff

Rating: 2/10 (3 June 2002)

If high school student Donnie Darko is simply a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from delusions, then why do these delusions reveal actual things about people? I have no idea.
Can someone explain "Donnie Darko" to me? No, I mean, I *understood* it, but can someone *explain* it to me? What was this movie saying? What was it trying to do? And even if I knew, would it matter? I doubt it.
Jake Gyllenhaal does an excellent Tobey Maguire imitation and Mary McDonnel, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wylie, and Katherine Ross appear to be in the film for no other reason than they owed the director a favor.