Domino Details

2005

Rated:
50
from 38,772 members

Starring	Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Lucy Liu
Director	Tony Scott
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

Domino

The already larger-than-life story of Domino Harvey, a former Ford model turned bounty hunter, takes on mythological proportions in Tony Scott's (TRUE ROMANCE, MAN ON FIRE) fast-paced action thriller. Unfolding in a non-linear fashion as a bloodied Domino (Kiera Knightley) is interrogated by iron-faced Officer Taryn Miles (Lucy Liu), the film traces the trajectory of Domino's tumultuous life. Beginning with the death of her beloved father, the actor Laurence Harvey (THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE), Domino develops into a hard-nosed, scrappy young woman who trains with nunchucks beside her mother's luxurious pool and responds violently to anyone who crosses her. Bored with the runway and the glamorous LA life, Domino shows up for a bounty-hunter seminar. Catching the teachers of the seminar as they try to cut and run with the proceeds, she manages to win their respect and joins their team. This consists of Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke), the tough-as-nails leader and Domino's surrogate father, and Choco (Edgar Ramirez), an impulsive Venezuelan who harbours a not-so-secret love for Domino. The three form a kind of family, working under Claremont Williams (Delroy Lindo), who plays Charlie to their three angels. For a time they are unstoppable, even agreeing to let the slimy Mark Heiss (Christopher Walken) produce a reality-TV show about them, which is hilariously hosted by Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green (BEVERLY HILLS 90210). But when Claremont orchestrates a complicated inside job in order to raise the money for his granddaughter's doctor bills, the precarious balance within the trio is disturbed. Tom Waits stands out in a cameo as a wise wanderer who advises the lost bounty hunters.

Starring	Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Lucy Liu, Mena Suvari, Christopher Walken, Riz Abbasi
Director	Tony Scott
Studio	ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 8 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 8 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language	English
Released	DVD: 06 Feb 2006 Blu-ray: unknown Production year: 2005
Format	DVD

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'My name is Domino Harvey,' says Keira Knightley, vowels as plummy as high tea. 'I am a bounty hunter.' Domino was (you probably know she died of an apparent overdose last summer) read more »
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63 out of 66 people found this review helpful

really awful

I've been trying to work out what it is that I dislike about this film and believe it or not, its not that easy. This film has all of the right ingredients to be great - a kick-ass hero played by a cute actress in the prime of her career supported by an excellent ensemble cast which includes uber-cool veterans Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken. So where could it possibly go wrong? Well, the simple answer is - everywhere. The script is dire, the acting is second rate and it feels like you're being told 'this film is cool' unconvincingly throughout the whole movie. Ms Knightley seems to think that being cool involves chomping on chewing gum, cocking her head slightly and putting her weight on one leg...but this becomes old within minutes of the film starting. Its like having a seventies fashion victim constantly telling you 'hey, I'm cool. I'm the greatest. look at me, no-one has ever been this cool before'. Its pseudo-cool...and it just doesn't work. The first few minutes of the film are like an mtv rock video - slightly sepia action with a mechanised and slightly echoed voice over. But then unfortunately, you soon realise that the director doesn't have any other styles - as this annoyingly echoey voice over continues throughout the film. Its as pretentious as a perfume advert whispered voice-over saying stuff like 'e-ternity...for men' and it just begins to grate after a while. In all honesty I was really upset that the film turned out to be this bad. I really wanted it to work and was really looking forward to disagreeing with the terrible reviews that its received. But unfortunately, they're all correct. There isn't a single redeeming quality about this film other than Knightley's looks - if I could give it a half star I would. It tries too hard to be cool when all they really had to do to achieve that was to tell the story as it was. Therefore it turned out as the embarrassing-uncle-dancing-at-a-wedding equivalent of film cool. Rubbish and cringeworthy.
- - Gromit from Canterbury
  - Posted 14 May 2006 03:28
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

I WOULDNT WANT TO WATCH THIS EVER AGAIN!

This film bored the tears out of me ...it was filmed like a documentary with commentary in parts ... I almost turned it off.

As the film went on it got better ... but it was in the main ... boring.
- - A customer from Lancashire
  - Posted 05 Aug 2006 23:09
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