Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Justin Gatti I know people are like..."Whaaat???" Yeah I'm crazy...thats probably why this movie made sense to me. Quite the twist...I tell you...or twists I should say. Watch it without expectations and comparisons, but don't forget D. Darko. Try not to be so critical about the different director or arguably the poor acting. A little more optimism and open-mindedness. Let your imagination go with the POTT. Check out the D.Darlo web page and get it all lay-ed out. This movie also answers some questions about the first especially about Mrs Death.I would love to lay out my points, but I don't want to post this one as a spoiler...maybe the next one. About to watch it again...Peace!!!

toll-8 Let me start by saying, this film is the sequel to the brilliant Donnie Darko but don't make that reason force you to watch this. My advice is to avoid it at all costs.The film tries to be its predecessor but over complicates it, eradicates all sense of emotion and drama and casts actors who just cannot act. So basically the exact opposite to Donnie Darko. Sure that was complicated but the end sewed most things up and also it leaves so much lose that you want to watch it again and again with intrigue. This film however I barely made it through one full viewing. It is seriously bad.Right, it is about Donnie's sister, Samantha (Chase). She is in the first film but is eleven years old. Now she is eighteen and run away from home as her family has dismantled after her brother's death. As her and her mate Corey (Evigan) drive across country their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a desolate town with weird town's folk. In this town lives a homeless Desert Ops veteran who has been having visions of Samantha telling him the world is going to end. When he sees her he tells her this and she begins to think about what this means. Next thing you know Samantha is killed but her mate is given the chance to go back in time and alter it so that she survives the car accident. I'm going to stop there for a second as this was a huge problem in the film. Her friend goes back into time but instead of preventing the car accident, she saves her friend and remains in the car that crashes. If she knows the outcome why doesn't she get out the car or even tell the car to go the other way. To me this was one of many major plot holes.Continuing on, Samantha is now alive and her mate dead but she isn't given the opportunity to save her friends life. We then interweave all the crazy sub-plots that involve a pointless town rebel, who has a brother who went missing along with another child, the town geek falling for Samantha and doing all he can to get with her and a man attempting to sell Christianity to her as well as having a strange relationship with one of the lost boys mother. What the hell! Donnie Darko had sub plots but they all related to the main plot. These ones just don't, and if they do the film could have done without them. Samantha then finds the missing boys although now dead, gets the veteran arrested and then has a date with the geek who seems to turn into an alien during a meteor storm. Then she rewinds to the beginning and decides to go home before this happens again. What a crock of pony. This tries to outdo the original and it really, really, epically fails. It is so bad.Nothing in this film makes any sense. Throughout I was puzzled as to what the hell was going on and at times I was even bored. All the characters are stereotypical and clichéd. They turn up at a desolate town and we have a geek, intact with glasses and high pants, the typical rebel, with sports car and beer and a weird religious nut. We also get a cameo from Elizabeth Berkley from Saved By The Bell, and her role is just pointless.Seriously never, ever, ever consider watching this film. The brilliance of the first one could be tarnished because of this dire sequel. We even get a reimagining of the bunny from the original and in this film it has no place, they have just brought it back to tie something in with the first. The director of the first reiterates that he had nothing to do with this film and has stated he wouldn't work with any of the actors who starred in this. If you haven't seen the first, watch it, you'll be intrigued, but don't bother with this. There is a very good reason it was released straight to DVD.

lx_baatz Hello reader,Okay first off I just want to point out to whoever happens to be reading this that you need to watch this film while keeping in mind that this is NOT a sequel to Donnie Darko, and therefore cannot be compared to Donnie Darko in any way, shape, or form.Now concerning all you die-hard Darko fans out there hell-bent on tearing this movie apart, just calm down. This movie, despite it's flaws, is not bad at all. While I'm sure the majority of you are professional directors with degrees in cinematography, complete with your own versions of Donne Darko 2 in mind, let's refrain from tearing down a good movie solely off the fact that it didn't match perfectly to what you had envisioned.Now, on to the movie. The plot was headstrong and loosely based off a sub-normal crazy teenage act of rebellion. If that isn't relate-able, I don't know what is. (We've all been through that phase) Admittedly, there are a few anachronisms (as pointed out by a few others) but that is in no way a bad thing. You have to remember that after the events in Sam's past the future has been changed forever. These may seem like anachronisms to us, but in the Darko Universe everything is as it should be. All the cars and Budweiser advertisements are up-to-date. Some of you may think that a plane crashing and the death of a lanky white kid in rural Virginia couldn't have possibly changed the future that much but it's a little theory called The Butterfly Effect. It's more than just a movie, look it up.The acting on the other hand, while not perfect at times, was still better than average. I've read posts on how "Donnie Darko was so good because it was written in such a way that you could relate to it and feel immersed in the story". Now I don't know that person on an individually personal level, but dear reader tell me this, which can you more easily relate to: 1. A troubled teenager who is trying to deal with the death of a loved one and a broken family through an act of rebellion. 2. An emotionally dysfunctional teenager who commits arson at the order of a psychotic delusion in the form of a man in a rabbit suit.9 times out of 10, it's #1.Overall, I give S. Darko an 8 out of 10 because it took the Darko Universe in an unexpected, interesting, and mind-bending direction, which is exactly what I've come to expect from Darko, ironically.As for the rest of you who constantly slander a movie you so obviously watched with intentional bias, I give you a 1 out of 10. Shame on you.

riot_guuy All the recognizable bits are there... the reverse time-lapse, the god-botherer, the giant bunny rabbit, the mangled voice, the (supposed) tear-jerker song toward the end, liquid future-paths... but here I don't see any semblance of a decent story. You get the sense these elements were handpicked because they're expected from a Darko movie, rather than being used to add to or create the story in a meaningful way.Wouldn't have been surprised to see a dialogue about smurfs or something similar (there may have been but I stopped taking complete notice a little way in). After all we did get treated to the cringe-worthy "Why are you looking at me funny?" - "Why do you look funny?", an obvious nod.I get the sense it could better seen more than once (did have the cynicism turned on) but it will be a while before I give it that chance. Bunny-droppings.