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Domino (2005)
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Reviews Counted:146
Fresh:27
Rotten:119
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: The life story of model-turned- bounty-hunter Domino Harvey struggles to get out of this overwrought and excessive biopic.
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: 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 thriller.... 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 thriller. Unfolding in a nonlinear 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 harbors 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. [More]
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Lucy Liu, Mena Suvari
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Lucy Liu, Mena Suvari, Christopher Walken, Riz Abbasi, Delroy Lindo, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green, Macy Gray, Dabney Coleman, Kel O'Neill, Jacqueline Bisset, Dale Dickey, Jerry Springer, T.K. Carter, Tom Waits, Stanley Kamel
Director: Tony Scott
Director: Tony Scott
Screenwriter: Richard Kelly, Toby Emmerich
Producer: Samuel Hadida, Victor Hadida, Tony Scott
Studio: New Line Cinema
Reviews for Domino
In short, Domino suffers from overdirection and a casting gamble that doesn't pay off but it's worth seeing for its sheer horrendousness.
[Scott] directs this 'sort of true' crime story about English schoolgirl-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey like a rabid dog with a rag doll in its gnashers.
a twisted head spinner of a biopic, where myth is always racing hot on the heels of a fugitive reality.
Give it up to director Tony Scott and screenwriter Richard Kelly -- Domino, a nonstop assault of cognitive dissonance, is an apt, if daft tribute to a life utterly misled.
Even when your mind is saying 'Wait a minute,' your pulse is revving up, reacting to Scott's edgy, visceral energy.
Imagine Mallory Knox as her own reality tv show star, less inclined to take up with the absolutely wrong man, and able to handle her mascara like a pro.
Hugely entertaining and entirely self-serving, “Domino” is likely to be raped by the critics, and then loved by its audiences.
An overblown, frantic, giddily exciting, eye-popping exercise in visual artistry over internal three-dimensionality.
This was made for the MTV generation, whatever that is, and has the look of one of those videos they don't really show anymore.
A well-paced action movie, if a little long, with an unusual feeling of surrealism behind the action.
I’m not exactly sure what kind of intoxicants director Tony Scott is trippin’ on these days, but...
When studio heads caught wind of an ex-model who became an actual female bounty hunter, green lights must have gone off like paparazzi flashes.
Domino is definitely muddled and too hip for its own good. But the true story behind Domino Harvey's life is a fascinating character study nonetheless.
It's stupid American big-budget filmmaking at its most endearingly idiotic.
As entertainment, Domino works, in much the same way every other Tony Scott film does. But as something more, which it aspires to be, it falls short.
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