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About me:	What's better than escaping your own, somewhat bland and mediocre existance, for a few hours and stepping into someone elses "on screen" shoes? To experience life, although a life seriously embellished, from a different angle, a different perspective, a totally different point of view? To forget about your problems and fully emerse yourself in someone elses? To learn to look at life and people in a different way? I love film. When they get it right, it really is an art form.

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~Disappointing , 27 April 2007

Domino on DVD (2005)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez
Director: Tony Scott
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Domino seemed to be all the rage and overly media hyped-up when it came out, but it's not something I'd go to the Cinema to watch, so I thought I'd wait until I could rent it or it was on TV at some point. I only put it on my rental list as my curiosity got the better of me; it'd been a while since it came out and I thought ~ what the hell. =]

Domino is a ridiculous 'true story' about an ex-model, female Bounty Hunter named Domino Harvey. In actual fact it's a mish-mash story about a trio of hardened & violent so called 'Bounty Hunters', who somehow, supposedly, manage to capture fugitives. Although I'm not sure I saw any of that happen in the film. There were some scenes where the bounty hunting trio were chasing someone which resulted in them getting tricked into a stand-off and, apparently, the only way out was for Domino to give some fat guy a lap dance...hmm...yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Critics talk about director Tony Scott's hyper-stylised direction, and his brilliant film making and all I see is complete and utter confusion and mess, to which I think the sole responsibility for that falls on him.

The lead character of Domino is played by Kiera Knightley and she does a decent job with what she's given. The cast is in no way the issue with this film. Knightley is gritty, rough around the edges, sexy, mean and troubled exactly the way she is meant to be. If the direction and story had been different she would have had a bonafied hit on her hands. Mickey Rourke plays Domino's boss Ed Mosbey, a tough as nails, bend the rules bounty hunter who knows a thing or two about crime. His character is completely shallow with no arc to it at all but for what they give him, he does a good job playing his usual tough guy role. Edgar Ramirez, Riz Abbasi, the terrific Delroy Lindo, hell even Mo'Nique all do a decent job in their roles, but because of the absolute craptacular script, direction style and complete lack of plot it doesn't matter what they do. Even Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green playing themselves as 'celebrity hostages' are marginally good but it just doesn't matter.

I don't believe a single moment of this film is based on any sort of reality whether Domino Harvey was a real person or not. I watched the documentary on the DVD and I still don't see where the plot plays any realistic part in her life. I will only say that some of the action scenes were impressive but every second of this film was so hard to watch because Scott zigged and zagged throughout, he cut it so it jumped around from one thing to another far too much and used his so called brilliant, stylised, direction to completely mangle a 'normal' film. Tony Scott has done some great films, don't get me wrong, Enemy of The State, The Last Boy Scout, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, the man knows action, which is exactly why Domino is so disappointing.

My advise is to steer clear of this one, there is far better out there in the action genre. 11 out of 13 people found this review helpful

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