Not too much can be said without ruining the twists of the film, but I’ll do my best. A mysterious man Steward (Frank Langella) arrives at the home of an unassuming Virginian couple (Cameron Diaz and James Mardsen) offering them $1 million dollars in return for pushing the bright red button housed inside the titular box. However, in doing so someone they don’t know, somewhere in the world, will die. Not much contest you may think, however, the resulting chain of events may outweigh the generous prize.

Director Richard Kelly’s films polarise critics. Some applaud his tenacity, whilst others decry his convoluted scripts and plot threads which invariably go nowhere. I am afraid I fall into the latter category. For starters, I think Donnie Darko was an accidentally good film. That is, the budgetary constraints made him produce a better film. When Kelly had the opportunity to tinker with the film ala George Lucas for the later Directors Cut, an inferior film was the result.



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