NateWatchesCoolMovies Domino is Tony Scott's fire roasted, charbroiled masterpiece. I've seen it over ten times and every time I seem to enjoy it more. It's pure, unfiltered Scott, free from the nagging pressures of the studio, financed by his own company, a loving treatise of pure style and breakneck kamikaze energy that doesn't let you breathe for a second. It's based on the life of Hollywood baby turned rough and tumble bounty hunter Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), daughter of actor Laurence Harvey. She leaves the 90210 world of rich snobs to pursue a grittier path, in the form of restless underground law enforcement. Now, the film sheepishly admits it's not entirely based on a true story before the credits even start, so as long as you know how much is fantasy going in, you won't feel cheated. Knightley is an angry, sparking roman candle in the role of her career, shedding her dainty image and going full furious grunge, giving Domino an alternative edge and damaged pathos that fuels much of the film's kinetic energy. Mickey Rourke plays her grizzled boss Ed Moseby, a veteran bounty hunter with a trail of violence behind him, who's weary and tough in equal parts. Rourke fires on all cylinders, giving some of his best work. Edgar Ramiraz plays scrappy Choco, third musketeer and eventual lover for Domino. Christopher Walken waltzes in as a reality TV producer with the attention span of a ferret on chrystal meth, Mena Suvari as his squirrelly assistant, Lucy Liu as a prim, likely OCD federal agent, Delroy Lindo is excellent as their bail bondsman associate Claremont Williams, Tom Waits has a surreal cameo as a desert wanderer, and there's scuzzy work from Dale Dickey, Lew Temple, Macy Gray, Monique, Dabney Coleman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jerry Springer and more. This is the kind of movie that grabs you by the collar and hurls you down an asphalt horizon of hallucinatory camera work, an intricate, lurid story of true crime gone wrong, and a balls to the wall depiction of life at its fastest, wildest and most out of control, as only the maestro of such things, Tony Scott, can bring you. Knightley ironically says in voice-over near the end, "I'll never tell you what it all meant". The film has a similar sentiment towards its audience: come along for the ride, if you dare, experience the raw, titillating excess of a purely enjoyable shotgun blast of genre filmmaking, but don't expect an explanation, a rationalization or least of all an apology. It is what it is: a sketchy piece of action crime cinema loosely based on a girl's intense life, sure to get your blood coursing through your veins and your synapses firing in time to its relentless, trippy rhythm.

buiger I know that many people (especially some critics) will love this motion picture. For me though, apart from Keira Knightley who is sexy as hell in this movie, all the rest is a total waste of time. I caught myself dozing off on more than one occasion while watching the film, notwithstanding the fact that the sound in my home theater was all the way up (and I have the most potent sub-woofer on earth). There is absolutely nothing I liked about this movie: - there is no story (at least nothing a common mortal would understand) - the cinematography is horrible (I suppose they wanted to do something special, but the result is that half the time you think your projector has been badly tuned) - the acting (apart from Keira) is cartoon-esque (a feeling I had also for the movie in general) - the direction and the editing where so hectic and over the top it sometimes made me dizzy. All things considered, for me, a total flop.

adam-atomboy This movie is done in the style of one of Tony Scott's gritty, yet ultimately heartwarming, action movies. I very much enjoy Tony Scott's style and his movies, especially Man on Fire, with which this movie shares its frenetic visual and cinematic qualities. Domino is not, however, of the same quality of Tony Scott's previous work. It's unfocused, completely abandoning the reality show subplot part way, which is only there for a convenient source of "celebrity hostages." It attempts to be taken seriously as a crime movie, with a colorful cast and more double crosses than one cares to follow. It tries to be clever in its plot twists, despite being terribly telegraphed. However, it breaks character too often and shows itself for what it is: a dark humor movie, a sort of crime fantasy that becomes so ridiculous, it is no longer funny and becomes painful to watch. The over-the-top violence, played for humor, loses its attraction well before the movie is over. Many of the characters are unlikeable and/or racist stereotypes. I will say I liked Mo'Nique as Lateesha, providing this movie with some genuine humor desperately needed in a movie that tries so hard to be funny in so many terrible ways. At the beginning of the movie I was laughing because the movie was trying so hard to be ridiculous; by the end of the movie I was laughing because I couldn't believe that the movie was still desperately trying throw seemingly random bits of plot points together in the apparent hope that something would stick and provide some sort of entertainment. I truly believe that this movie could have been 20-30 minutes shorter without losing anything important. I really wish it had been. The movie's redeeming quality can be found in its main actors, like Mickey Rourke. I can't decide if I like Keira Knightley in this, but I'm sure the movie is better for having her in it. Mo'Nique of course steals every scene she is in. They all tried their hardest to play their characters and it shows. With a better script they definitely could have made this a good movie. As it is, it is simply okay.I was going to give this movie a 5/10 until the scene where Choco performs shotgun surgery on Fender because Domino misheard Claremont's instructions. Wacky misunderstandings like that get me every time.

FlashCallahan Domino Harvey, daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey, is tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society LA life, so she leaves the vanity behind, and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley and his crew, and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things heat up when a masked gang steal the contents of an armoured car, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the situation....Tony Scott was an amazing film maker. Top Gun, Man On Fire, Déjà Vu to name a few. But wow, just like his Brother, he had a fair few stinkers under his belt. And this has to be right near the buckle.The film is bonkers, but not in a good way. It's all style and no substance, and although it looks all flashy and fresh, as soon as it tries to elaborate its narrative, it stinks rotten to the core.Knightley is okay, as is Rourke, but the rest of the cast seem lost, Walken is the special guest star and hams it up, making the film all the more laughable.It looks good, very good, but it tries too hard to be something different, and ruins it.Oh, and the real Domino appears right at the end, smiling.Guess she never saw the film.RIP