Completely unnecessary, odd for the sake of being odd. That girl is far too pretty to be in this piece of shit. Full of pointless throwbacks to the old film, relies entirely on its following, constantly referencing back to it yet failing to explain anything. Lacks any vague form of originality, and any relatable let alone likeable characters.

Cinematography is dull and uninspired, lots of slow tracking to sad music that will never match Mad World from Donnie Darko. Performances are tolerable, mainly from the side characters, two leads are nice to look at but not much in the way of acting. Ed Westwick seems to have a large pole wedged up his smug arse the entire time, either that or he was going for cool and managed learning impaired.

What exists of the plot has no purpose, a great deal of the film is completely pointless and only serves to add to the eeriness, which isn't there to begin with. There was a lot of potential for this, they could have done something interesting with this universe, well Richard Kelly could have, this guy thought he might be able to, but hasn't. Instead what we get is a predictable, lack lustre excuse for a plot, half of which is basically a loose rehash of the original, but without a quarter of the mystique or compelling characters and themes. And an ending that makes no sense to a viewer unfamiliar with the concepts explored in the first. It would be an anti-climax were the director able to drum up any kind of anticipation. So it's just very a messy finish, which I suppose some would still call a climax (HA I'm so funny). It's one thing to love a film enough to want to work with that intellectual property, it's another thing to butcher it and pretend you achieved something. Straight to DVD is right. Pointless Self Indulgent Shit.