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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

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Domino is far from dull. But it doesn't convince.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
10/14/05
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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It'll either fire every last synapse in your brain or have you fleeing in agony.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
10/14/05
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Buried deep within the psychedelic sludge that is Domino, there may be a story about a model turned bounty hunter. Good luck trying to find it.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
10/14/05
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star

A messy, fictionalized saga of femme-fatale bounty-hunter Domino Harvey.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
10/14/05
Ted Fry
Ted Fry
Seattle Times

If for some reason you're curious about the sad life of model-turned- bounty hunter Domino Harvey, don't bother with Tony Scott's dismal Domino.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
10/14/05
Walter V. Addiego
Walter V. Addiego
San Francisco Chronicle

This is a classically bad movie, much worse than the one almost everyone excoriated in 2003, Gigli.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
10/14/05
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

Domino director Tony Scott tints his film green, edits at hyperspeed and layers image upon image until it resembles Natural Born Killers on too many Red Bulls.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
10/14/05
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
Sacramento Bee

Domino is the latest Tony Scott enterprise to blast us away with pizazz but leave us with an empty feeling.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
10/14/05
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Domino is a convoluted and hyper-stylized bore, a frenetic pastiche of black comedy, bullet-strewn violence, and pulp fantasy. In short, a typical Tony Scott (Man on Fire) film.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
10/14/05
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

Domino is less a movie than a hyperkinetic slide show -- presented during a nuclear attack.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
10/14/05
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

Domino is big mess of a movie that never gets past its studio pitch line: chick bounty hunter.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
10/14/05
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

It's a goofy and bloody and assaultive all-star extravaganza and an absurd burlesque of the life of movie-star daughter/model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
10/14/05
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

What's good for `Domino' isn't necessarily what happened to Domino Harvey...

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
10/14/05
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

In small doses, this looks kind of cool. For two hours, it's excruciating.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
10/14/05
M.E. Russell
M.E. Russell
Oregonian

It's sad to say that an arbitrary appearance by Jerry Springer is the picture's closest brush with inspiration.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
10/14/05
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger

Domino is amusingly decadent for a while but eventually wears you out. Two eyeballs are not enough to see it with.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/14/05
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

The picture is an exercise in exploitation joi de vivre, and your enjoyment of it will depend on your tolerance for shameless, reckless, unredemptive violence with relatively little artistic or spiritual value.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
10/14/05
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com

When a woman complains that her boss has 'the attention span of a ferret on crystal meth,' she could be talking about Tony Scott or stating Scott's opinion of his audience.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
10/14/05
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

It airbrushes and glorifies the short, angry life of its subject in ways that are practically indecent.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
10/14/05
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News

Domino will try your patience and give you a throbbing headache -- about all it does with any success.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
10/14/05
Paul Doro
Paul Doro
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
 
 
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