Domino is far from good, but it's mildly entertaining if you lower your standards appropriately.
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10/14/05
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.... [More]
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Lucy Liu, Mena Suvari
Director: Tony Scott
Reviews for Domino
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.
10/14/05
Do not see Domino if you are prone to motion sickness.
10/14/05
The problem with Scott's film and Keira Knightley's performance as the bounty hunter is its bored delirium, a daze of scattershot ennui that prioritizes hipster carnage and flashy cuts over intelligible storytelling.
10/14/05
Scott means for his entertainment package to be hip, hysterical fun. But his stylistic embellishments and indiscriminate appetite for sensation crowds his title character right out of the film.
10/14/05
Domino, director Tony Scott's hyperactive, roll-in-the-mud, blow-stuff-up and jiggle the cameras every which way extravaganza, is one of the most awesomely awful films ever made.
10/14/05
If you are capable of sifting through this cut-up collage of freeze-frames, flashbacks, slo-mo shootouts, druggy smutty vignettes and scruffy scenarios, you could find a few morsels of exhilaration.
10/14/05
Tony Scott goes so over the top with attention-deficit quirks -- quick-cut scene editing, shaky-cam photography, washed-out color schemes, blaring soundtrack music -- that his films have become a chore to watch.
10/14/05
The movie has roughly the same effect on the nervous system as listening to a box of marbles being dumped onto a linoleum floor.
10/14/05
[Director Tony Scott's] pornographic lust for bloodletting, gunplay, and out-of-control camerawork far exceeds his abilities to tell a story.
10/14/05
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.
10/14/05
The film itself is cut like a trailer. It works for two minutes, but watching this kind of presentation for more than an hour can put you into an epileptic fit.
10/14/05
The hangover symptoms brought on by Scott's frenzied approach are partly calmed thanks to a charismatic cast and decent screenwriting.
10/14/05
It never stops jerking and twitching, as if the film stock were developed in an emulsion of Red Bull.
10/14/05
This is more than a movie for the MTV generation — it's a two-hour seizure.
10/14/05
Domino is more an extended stunt than a story about a human being.
10/14/05
Scott's exasperating all flash, no substance approach to storytelling is exactly why his latest film... works as little as it does.
10/14/05
Domino is a sensory thrill ride, but in the final analysis a mighty hollow one.
10/14/05
For masochists who always wondered what Sgt. Hartman's threat to "gouge out your eyeballs and skull-**** you" in Full Metal Jacket might have felt like.
10/14/05
It's a train wreck. It's a mess of frenetic editing topped off by an over-the-top ending in which you expect Die Hard's John McClane to make a cameo. But I loved it.
10/14/05
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