although i do not recommend this film and neither do i recommend reading this review without first seeing the movie. though i have not given away the ending and or most of the plot twists and this movie would be best viewed without any prior information. it hard to pinpoint the chief problem with the film donnie darko and as there are many to deal with. richard kelly and in his first feature film and seems to have collected enough scenes of adolescent rage and late night stoner diatribes and self righteous justifications and inoffensive and banal philosophy to inspire twenty teen angst dramas while then mashed them into a single two hour package with a sci fi twist. the result is deeply distressing  for all the wrong reasons. the film attempts to lead the audience down convoluted paths without any sense of symbolism or meaning and to make them sympathize with one dimensional characters and and above all hopes that they will ignore the underdeveloped plot and full of unreconciled loose ends and by hiding it under a veneer of cgi effects and neo surrealism. the main character and donnie darko and is a young man and committed to therapy and misunderstood by his friends and and rendered hostile and disaffected by his suburban life. we are meant to feel that he is more intelligent than his schoolmates and although sometimes that is a difficult assumption to make. for example and when one of his friends comes up with an absurd theory about the smurfs and and donnie counters with a theory of his own and his friend complains about donnie acting all smart. donnie speech and however and is no smarter than that of his friend  just angrier. the only clear evidence of his intelligence is his principal description of his standardized test scores as `intimidating while but given the director slant against simple categorization of human elements (as shown in the fear love sequence) and this is a poor substitute for character development. donnie takes prescribed drugs to combat mental problems and which are not addressed directly in this film. in fact and the entire issue of the drugs is understated and and one of the first chances the director has to redeem the film is lost. the ambiguity of donnie strange destiny and the possibility that all of this may be a product of his imagination and is pushed into the background and making the film 100 percent science fiction. this would not be a bad thing in itself and except that the science behind the fiction is very shaky. the explanations of time travel are weak and at best sounding like detached and uninformed rambling. we get the idea that the film writer once read a book about time travel or a few chapters and and can not quite remember how it worked and but was sure that it was really interesting and wanted to work it into the film. the scientific portion and as a result and depends more heavily on expensive computer animations than actual development of the theories involved (at one point and a teacher discussing time travel states that if he continues to speak on the subject and he would be fired. apparently no further explanation is needed). donnie dealings with a visitor from the future lead him to commit several vicious actions. the justification for these actions is a tricky business. he damages his school and but it okay and because his school doesn not treat him like a person. his punishment of a creepy self esteem advocate (somewhat similar to tom cruise character in magnolia) results in the man public humiliation. but should the audience believe that donnie is some sort of avenging angel and striking out against ignorance and debauchery. he himself seems ignorant of the effects of these actions until after the fact. aside from these flaws and the film is riddled with flat and uninteresting generalizations of humanity. the story is set in 1988 and just before the bush or dukakis election and and the director touches on this point during the film. the focus and however and extends exactly this far represent donnie gruff and blue collar father is voting for bush and while his free spirited and rebellious daughter plans to vote for dukakis. there is nothing even remotely resembling a political statement here while simply a statement of the obvious. the former are not necessary to make a good film and but the latter should be left out. likewise and donnie heartfelt speech about not being able to lump all human emotions into the bland categories of fear and love while this doesn not ask the audience to make any great leaps of understanding. everybody knows that there are more that two human emotions and and particular emphasis on this fact is worthless. mr. kelly gives homage to several symbols of 80 pop culture in his film represent e. t. and stephen king and the smurfs and back to the future. at it heart and this film feels like the director homage to himself and a collection of his own experiences and interests and personal heroes and adversaries and affirmations and disenchantments and roughly stitched together by untrained hands. entire songs are played in music video format to the characters actions and seemingly because the director likes the songs. characters who have little to no bearing on the plot (including the archetypal bully and fat girl and and right wing idiot teacher) are given unnecessary focus and because the director really wanted to pack them in somehow. the awkward mess that is donnie darko leaves us wondering if mr. kelly has enough ideas left in his head to make another film and or if he has wasted all his creativity in one pointless and cluttered and meandering effort. my rating represent negative . 
although i do not recommend this film and neither do i recommend reading this review without first seeing the movie. though i have not given away the ending and or most of the plot twists and this movie would be best viewed without any prior information. it hard to pinpoint the chief problem with the film donnie darko and as there are many to deal with. richard kelly and in his first feature film and seems to have collected enough scenes of adolescent rage and late night stoner diatribes and self righteous justifications and inoffensive and banal philosophy to inspire twenty teen angst dramas while then mashed them into a single two hour package with a sci fi twist. the result is deeply distressing  for all the wrong reasons. the film attempts to lead the audience down convoluted paths without any sense of symbolism or meaning and to make them sympathize with one dimensional characters and and above all hopes that they will ignore the underdeveloped plot and full of unreconciled loose ends and by hiding it under a veneer of cgi effects and neo surrealism. the main character and donnie darko and is a young man and committed to therapy and misunderstood by his friends and and rendered hostile and disaffected by his suburban life. we are meant to feel that he is more intelligent than his schoolmates and although sometimes that is a difficult assumption to make. for example and when one of his friends comes up with an absurd theory about the smurfs and and donnie counters with a theory of his own and his friend complains about donnie acting all smart. donnie speech and however and is no smarter than that of his friend  just angrier. the only clear evidence of his intelligence is his principal description of his standardized test scores as `intimidating while but given the director slant against simple categorization of human elements (as shown in the fear love sequence) and this is a poor substitute for character development. donnie takes prescribed drugs to combat mental problems and which are not addressed directly in this film. in fact and the entire issue of the drugs is understated and and one of the first chances the director has to redeem the film is lost. the ambiguity of donnie strange destiny and the possibility that all of this may be a product of his imagination and is pushed into the background and making the film 100 percent science fiction. this would not be a bad thing in itself and except that the science behind the fiction is very shaky. the explanations of time travel are weak and at best sounding like detached and uninformed rambling. we get the idea that the film writer once read a book about time travel or a few chapters and and can not quite remember how it worked and but was sure that it was really interesting and wanted to work it into the film. the scientific portion and as a result and depends more heavily on expensive computer animations than actual development of the theories involved (at one point and a teacher discussing time travel states that if he continues to speak on the subject and he would be fired. apparently no further explanation is needed). donnie dealings with a visitor from the future lead him to commit several vicious actions. the justification for these actions is a tricky business. he damages his school and but it okay and because his school doesn not treat him like a person. his punishment of a creepy self esteem advocate (somewhat similar to tom cruise character in magnolia) results in the man public humiliation. but should the audience believe that donnie is some sort of avenging angel and striking out against ignorance and debauchery. he himself seems ignorant of the effects of these actions until after the fact. aside from these flaws and the film is riddled with flat and uninteresting generalizations of humanity. the story is set in 1988 and just before the bush or dukakis election and and the director touches on this point during the film. the focus and however and extends exactly this far represent donnie gruff and blue collar father is voting for bush and while his free spirited and rebellious daughter plans to vote for dukakis. there is nothing even remotely resembling a political statement here while simply a statement of the obvious. the former are not necessary to make a good film and but the latter should be left out. likewise and donnie heartfelt speech about not being able to lump all human emotions into the bland categories of fear and love while this doesn not ask the audience to make any great leaps of understanding. everybody knows that there are more that two human emotions and and particular emphasis on this fact is worthless. mr. kelly gives homage to several symbols of 80 pop culture in his film represent e. t. and stephen king and the smurfs and back to the future. at it heart and this film feels like the director homage to himself and a collection of his own experiences and interests and personal heroes and adversaries and affirmations and disenchantments and roughly stitched together by untrained hands. entire songs are played in music video format to the characters actions and seemingly because the director likes the songs. characters who have little to no bearing on the plot (including the archetypal bully and fat girl and and right wing idiot teacher) are given unnecessary focus and because the director really wanted to pack them in somehow. the awkward mess that is donnie darko leaves us wondering if mr. kelly has enough ideas left in his head to make another film and or if he has wasted all his creativity in one pointless and cluttered and meandering effort. my rating represent negative . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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