"Domino"
"Domino" is a mess, but it's a wild, ambitious, aggressive, silly and entertaining mess. Which is a lot more than I can say for most movies, so I recommend it to viewers who don't take things too seriously.
Based roughly on the real life of Domino Harvey, model, bounty hunter and daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, it stars Keira Knightley as the most blisteringly gorgeous bounty hunter who ever lived. She's constantly smoking, sneering and basically trying her cute little darndest to convince us that she's a hardcore chick with contempt for the world who will break your nose just as soon as look at you. Most of the time she succeeds.
After growing up wealthy and pampered, Domino tries her hand at Beverly Hills high school, college and sororities and supermodeling, but she can't avoid her deep-seated need to be tattooed and yell at people. So she joins up with veteran soldier Ed Moseby and loco Latino Choco, and they become an inseparable trio of hunters. They get involved in a reality TV series presented by celebrity hosts, while simultaneously carrying out an ill-conceived and confusing armored car heist that gets them in trouble with the mob and a rich old guy played by Dabney Coleman.
The story is drenched in visual style, which won't appeal to everyone, but I dig it the most. I'd much rather a movie LOOK interesting than have the same old lighting and camerawork as every other film. Unusual color treatments, different film stocks, inset frames, titles and dialogue written on the screen, are all part of the toolbox of filmmakers and I personally would rather see them used more. Director Tony Scott here throws them all at the screen to see what sticks, and I found it pretty effective.
If you've got a sense of humor and can see the appeal of watching Keira Knightley trade lap dances for bounty locations, get naked on mescalin, sneer, blow smoke and break the nose of Brian Austin Green from Beverly Hills 90210, then check out "Domino". :)
Jeff
Based roughly on the real life of Domino Harvey, model, bounty hunter and daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, it stars Keira Knightley as the most blisteringly gorgeous bounty hunter who ever lived. She's constantly smoking, sneering and basically trying her cute little darndest to convince us that she's a hardcore chick with contempt for the world who will break your nose just as soon as look at you. Most of the time she succeeds.
After growing up wealthy and pampered, Domino tries her hand at Beverly Hills high school, college and sororities and supermodeling, but she can't avoid her deep-seated need to be tattooed and yell at people. So she joins up with veteran soldier Ed Moseby and loco Latino Choco, and they become an inseparable trio of hunters. They get involved in a reality TV series presented by celebrity hosts, while simultaneously carrying out an ill-conceived and confusing armored car heist that gets them in trouble with the mob and a rich old guy played by Dabney Coleman.
The story is drenched in visual style, which won't appeal to everyone, but I dig it the most. I'd much rather a movie LOOK interesting than have the same old lighting and camerawork as every other film. Unusual color treatments, different film stocks, inset frames, titles and dialogue written on the screen, are all part of the toolbox of filmmakers and I personally would rather see them used more. Director Tony Scott here throws them all at the screen to see what sticks, and I found it pretty effective.
If you've got a sense of humor and can see the appeal of watching Keira Knightley trade lap dances for bounty locations, get naked on mescalin, sneer, blow smoke and break the nose of Brian Austin Green from Beverly Hills 90210, then check out "Domino". :)
Jeff
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