Thoughts on: Donnie Darko
Amazing movie. The surreal-ness was handled extremely well, and Jake Gyllenhaal gives an amazing performance. It had me intrigued from start to almost-finish. And that brings me to my problem with the ending: [SPOILERS BELOW] Suddenly the time travel is actually real? Up until the tornado crashing the plane, everything could be explained as paranoid schizophrenia. It would have been really easy to have an amazing ending while keeping with the idea that it's all in his head - why the need to suddenly make the pseudo-science real? What did the ending add to the story? Unless I'm missing something? Maybe the Director's Cut is much better? 8/10