grantss Donnie Darko is a troubled teen. He is a loner, his best friend is an imaginary large rabbit named Frank and he is seeing a psychiatrist. He starts to date Gretchen and things start to look up. Then a bizarre accident destroys his bedroom and things get complicated.Excellent drama. Highly original plot that covers some interesting themes. Engaging too, as the characters, especially Donnie, are given good depth. Very intriguing - you really don't know where the story is heading. Can be a bit confusing though, especially towards the end.Good work by Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie. The movie launched his career.

Nathan Laing Jake Gyllenhaal leads an incredible cast as a mental ill teenager trying to make sense of his visions of a giant rabbit known as Frank who warns him of the end of the world. Donnie Darko is a very complicated and highly debatable movie dealing with very complex themes. If you can I highly recommend you check out the director's cut for a more easily digestible story. And of course get the amazing soundtrack.

marlinmat-562-10692 Either an over rated movie with a good musical score or a movie that I just don't get that has a good musical score. For me this movie was quite the let down as it was a big fragmented mess of scenes thrown together. Too bad I'm not artsy enough to pull together what this mess means. In other words... a waste of my time.

mkivtt I tried getting through this. Twice. I failed both times, turning it off in boredom on attempt 1. As a big fan of sci-fi, with this movie ranking highly in that category in so many lists, I tried a second time and ended up falling asleep. There won't be a third try.I made it about an hour in, and all I saw was some annoying kid who's on pills, with a dysfunctional family, rebelling in school. He doesn't fit in well at home nor with his "friends" at school. He's seeing a shrink, because every once in a while he'll see a man in a giant rabbit suit.There's no sci-fi. There's no thriller. There's no likable character. There's no horror or fantasy. It's just a boring story of how this kid spends his days at home and at school.Who knows. After that hour it may turn into the best movie ever. I guess I'll never know. Hey directors: you may want to offer something, ANYTHING, to keep your audience engaged for the first 60 minutes.Avoid at all cost. Boring and stupid.