Domino, 2005
Domino, 2005
Directed by Tony Scott
Written by Richard Kelly
Cast:
Keira Knightley ... Domino Harvey
Mickey Rourke ... Ed Mosbey
Edgar Ramirez ... Choco
Riz Abbasi ... Alf (as Rizwan Abbasi)
Delroy Lindo ... Claremont Williams
Mo'Nique ... Lateesha Rodriguez
Ian Ziering ... Himself
Brian Austin Green ... Himself
Joe Nunez ... Raul (as Joseph Nunez)
Macy Gray ... Lashandra Davis
Shondrella Avery ... Lashindra Davis
Dabney Coleman ... Drake Bishop
Peter Jacobson ... Burke Beckett
Kel O'Neill ... Francis
Lucy Liu ... Taryn Miles
I should listen to other people's reviews of movies I'm semi-interested in, because in this case, everyone's right: Domino sucks.
If you're reading this and you're still somehow thinking you should put it on your Netflix list or, god/dess forbid, accidentally rent it at the video store, here's why you should not waste your time. Okay, imagine Dog: The Bounty Hunter. Now imagine 50 episodes of Dog minus Dog with a forced plot with about 18 extra characters, plus their backstories. Add in some cameos by Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering (both of whom really should be dead, if this is their only work), toss it in a seizure-inducing flashy style, garnish with some unnecessary repetition of "important" "lines," and serve with a side of random strip tease, and you've got a movie that fails miserably at being a messy and somehow more misogynistic combination of Snatch and Ocean's 11.
I like the idea of telling the story of Domino Harvey, a bounty hunter who happens to be female -- and hot -- in a world of aggressive males. I think it's cool that Domino subverts the pretty girl paradigm by punching sorority girls in the nose and shooting people and whatnot. This, like so many other ideas, should have been left in the realm of theory.
Fuck, it's terrible.
Grade: F