Donnie Darko

Wake up, Donnie. There are 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and twelve seconds until the world ends… When I began watching Donny Darko, I was kind of disappointing, I had already seen too many ‘boy with mental problems meets terrifying imaginary rabbit telling him about the end of the world’ movies. In all honesty though, this movie is messed up, and I love that. Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the movie, and it is one of his earliest movies in his career, and his performance is great. This movie is one of those movies that really makes you think, I took some time to process it, and I just like it even more. More than other movies, I think that Donnie Darko handles time travel very well. As the name implies, the movie is dark-o. Frank (the scary mecha-rabbit), tells Donnie to commit serious crimes so that he can save the world, driving Donnie into madness. One of the other aspects that I really love about this movie is that it also begins by playing as an 80s high school movie, and being that Ferris Bueller is one of my favorite movies (I’ll be reviewing that this Thursday), but that’s also where my largest problem comes in. The movie seems like it can’t decide upon a tone to stick with for more than about five minutes. It seems to jump all over the map, which is fine, but it becomes somewhat distracting, and trying to mix the 80s movie and a psychological thriller is a strange match. But again, the movie is really good, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, the movie makes you think and the performance by Jake Gyllenhall is fantastic, however, the special effects are quite dated, and the tone jumps all over. Still, I would definitely recommend it, go and watch it. 8.2/10