Domino (2005)

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

The Worst Film Ever

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Dear dear me! What a violent, ridiculous, flashy mess. A pretentious flop, trying SO hard to pull the wool over our eyes, pretending to be an important movie. Ha! As a seasoned reviewer, I am always suspicious of 10/10 ratings when a movie gains only around an average 6/10 or so on IMDb. Undoubtedly, this flick has been pushed up owing to many very high ratings. "dlahiff", for example, rates it 10/10, and has rated only ONE movie here on IMDb... titling his/her review "Tony Scott's Postmodern Masterpiece". Hmmm. Crazy! This is a silly, higgledy-piggledy film featuring several "stars", yet bringing very little of value to us. Of course, if you like flashing, flashy scenes of violence, relentless obscenities, blood, guns, and enjoy the presence of Keira with her odd accent, you may like this movie. I found it thoroughly distasteful and difficult to sit through, frankly. Don't waste your time. Because there are some even worse filme, I have rated this 2/10. #

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.

Domino (2005) is one of my all time favorite films for it's time and yet still to date I can drop this movie in the DVD Player and kick back to enjoy the action. I haven't had a lot of time to get my reviews in on all of the movie I own or have watched being that their thousands upon thousands but as time passes I will get to it; I had to take a moment to express my views on Domino. This movie is filled with action, it's sort of the "21 Jump Street" on crack filled with a bit of "Natural Born Killers" love. Now I'm a huge fan of Keira Knightley and so far have liked every film she has performed in; this one still is my favorite of the lot. What more could you ask for in an action movie, tons of guns flaring, conspiracy, and the boat ride that just keeps burning to the ground while in mid float. Love it!

This movie had all the ingredients for being at least a correct action- drama film, if not a very exciting one: an interesting script inspired by the life of Domino Harvey, a real female bounty hunter and a fascinating character for a Hollywood story; a high budget; a cast full of talented and famous actors and actresses: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgard Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Lucy Liu, Christopher Walken, Jacqueline Bisset, Dabney Coleman and so on.Then, what is the problem with it? The problem is Tony Scott and his hysterical, inopportune and always "over the top" way of directing. This is his trademark, his style, I know, but it sucks. Thanks to him, it's almost impossible to enjoy anything of this movie: you cannot enjoy the drama, you cannot enjoy the action, you cannot enjoy the actors... You just get annoyed, with your eyes tired and possibly a big headache.And it is really a pity because Domino could have been MUCH MUCH better if its deceased director wouldn't have been so obsessed in sacrificing the content for the sake of the form. By the way, a very wrong concept of what must be a movie in formal terms: a feature film should never be a video clip, what it works in three or four minutes becomes always an exhausting and irritating audiovisual experience in a length of two hours.