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Donnie Darko
Our Review: It's Darko days for Bubble Boy's Jake
Gyllenhaal when he plays a 1980s
upper-middle-class teen who barely escapes
death by a random falling jet engine, has
visions of a demonic bunny and dabbles in
time travel. This brooding indie film (exec
produced by Drew Barrymore) has more celeb
cameos than subplots--Patrick Swayze plays a
self-help guru with a dark secret, for
instance--and it's apparently difficult for
first-time writer-director Richard Kelly to
handle it all. The movie moves like a dream
(i.e., it's confusing and slow). And after nearly
two hours of the titular troubled teen asking
borderline supernatural questions that are
never quite answered, all we get is a
head-scratching ending that's more frustrating
than intriguing.
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