Better then I thought. Topical in an age when mass killing sprees are just another day in this ruined country. The film has decent character development, and plausibility, though the lead's final rage lacks the buildup you'd expect. In the "Joker", the developing psychosis is explored and the final rage explosion is anticipated. We know it 'll happen here too because the scripting allows no other possibility. It's well scripted, the supporting roles have more acting then the lead, and his relative lack of passion could be ascribed to a feature of schizoid dissociation, but movies like this play to an audience largely unversed in the subtler symptomology of psychotic and abused children. They CAN be emotionally dead. Yet his actions contradict emotional deadness, they are in fact driven and passionate, it's just the depth that's missing in what is largely an actorly film far more then a bang-bang flick. Still, it has enough coherence and integrity to more then hold your interest....disaster is imminent and stressed and inferred all the time....and the only part that confused me was the "revelation" about the lead's best friend, which sort of retrospectively authenticates his craziness which has already been established in other ways many times over.. But it is a craziness cleverly fused with many of the motives of a very normal teenager, the conflicts, the compulsion to obey an abusive parent, the initially suppressed reaction to the bullying..... So, a n interesting mixture of things here......worth it.

I thought we were going to have a rip off of Donnie Darko when I saw the title of the movie but apart of the main character having visions and hallucinations it's not comparable. In White Rabbit the main character Harlon Mackey played by Nick Krause is getting bullied at school, has not a lot of friends, and even at home things are not particularly good. After a day hunting with his father he is traumatized when he had to shoot a defenseless white rabbit. From that point he's starting hallucinating, hearing voices speaking to him from his favorite comic book. I thought Nick Krause did a good job with his character. And the other actors were all good as well. The story is entertaining and is an example of a lot of things that go wrong in the education of kids in the United States. Teaching your kids to shoot guns at their young age, buying them guns as a present, prayer groups before going to school etc, all things that will mess up a kid if he's borderline disturbed. Kids that are getting bullied, that are outcasts in their school, it's not a good idea to give them guns as a present. And that's why in America you get shootings at schools etc... Things that you almost never see in Europe. I did enjoy the movie, especially the acting of Nick Krause.

Ultimately too violent for me but compelling until then. Nice twist before the ending is well-handled (I didn't see it coming).