Donnie Darko (2001)
6/10
Overloaded Plate of Weirdness, Too Much Work to Get It
11 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Time travel movie without one fraction of the fun usual to the genre. Lots of great moments don't add up to a film. The best thing in the movie is a sincere and committed Jake Gyllenhall giving himself completely to each scene though even he confessed he had no idea what the movie is about. The period Movie Video style of overlaying incomprehensible rock music of surpassing mediocrity over entire scenes makes one cringe now.

No Darth Vader 'I am your father' moments because the story and the movie are not good enough to ever truly SURPRISE us. Many of the roles were caricatures and done a bit broadly and not believable.

I wanted to like this and was sorely disappointed.
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