Product Description

A trademark Tony Scott film and starring Keira Knightley Domino presents an entertaining mix of gritty action and a sharp visual style. The film is inspired by the life of Domino Harvey a former model who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills life to become a bounty hunter.Running Time: 128 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794043101366 Manufacturer No: N10136

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11767 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2006-02-21
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 128 minutes

Amazon.com
Does it really matter what's true or false in Domino if the movie's so deliriously hard to resist? Tony Scott's dizzying film about his late friend, former model and famous bounty hunter Domino Harvey (1969-2005), is more tribute than biography, riffing on Harvey's action-packed exploits and brief reality-TV celebrity in a fractured, manic style that's so visually over-stimulating that it could throw vulnerable viewers into grand mal seizures. Scott's barrage of audio-visual hyperactivity is ultimately exhausting, and Richard Kelly's fragmented screenplay does nothing to discourage Scott's relentless MTV "style" (and we use that word oh-so-loosely here). And yet, with Keira Knightley so ferociously alluring in the title role, and Mickey Rourke (as her boss and bounty-hunting mentor, Ed Mosbey) serving up a second dose of his Sin City comeback, Domino grabs you by the throat and never lets go. Scott's embrace of nihilism is typically facile but it propels a vision of wretched humanity that pulls you in with train-wreck intensity. The movie's bracing humor also makes fine use of a large supporting cast including Christopher Walken, Jacqueline Bissett, Dabney Coleman, Edgar Ramirez, Mo'Nique, Delroy Lindo, Mena Suvari, Lucy Liu, and former Beverly Hills 90210 stars Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green (the latter two poking good-sport fun at themselves as "celebrity hostages"). The accidental overdose death of the real Domino (daughter of The Manchurian Candidate star Laurence Harvey) in the summer of 2005 threw a sad shroud of irony over this movie's theatrical release, but for all its reckless indulgence, Domino is a fitting eulogy for a troubled woman whose credo ("Heads you live, tails you die") is reflected in Scott's fictionalized rendition of the dangerous life she lived. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

The DOMINO has FALLEN!
If this film had not claimed it was based "on a true story...sort of" right at the opening, I would have thought it's faily entertaining.

It became a bad joke when one person had his whole right arm shot off by one of Domino fellow bounty hunters. Yet, he's still able to shout loudly to his mother asking her to give the hunters the money! There are quite a few nonsense scenes like that.

There is a lot of shooting and action. If you're watching it for facts, you'll be disappointed. If you want entertainment, it will help a little bit. Overall, it's disappointing.

The DVD Is Currently Selling For 19 Cents
Hack Director Alert

Back in 1968, at the height of his "Star Trek" celebrity, William Shatner got way too full of himself and released a record album called "The Transformed Man". It was not music in the normal sense but rather Shatner's dramatic reading of some vaguely classic literary passages set to unusual music. Two tracks were actual songs, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Mr. Tambourine Man", with Shatner dramatically reading the lyrics in his standard "chewing the scenery" manic-depressive acting style. This album is stylistically the most pompous collection in the history of sound recording. But what makes it such a prime mock fest candidate (you truly will laugh until it hurts the first time you hear either of the songs) is the total disconnect between Shatner's intensity (full of sound and fury) and the rather pedestrian lyrics (signifying nothing).

I think Shatner was sincere and not simply a victim of substance abuse, although he might have benefited from a bit of sedation. This is what happens when you OD on your own delusions of grandeur.

Which brings us to Tony Scott and his 2005 film "Domino", the first film to approach the mockfest potential of Shatner's album, and for an identical reason; the staggering capacity of hack director Scott for self-delusion. You only need examine one of the DVD's special features, the pretentiously titled "Bounty Hunting on Acid: Tony Scott's Visual Style". This featurette details how, like Shatner 37 years earlier, Scott suffers from a total reality disconnect and views himself as a stylistic successor to Welles and Fellini. And like the mismatch between Shatner's intensity and the quality of his material, Scott's freeze-frames, stuttering slo-mo, fast-forwards, filters, strobes, 360-degree pans, and jump cut splits simply call attention to the shallow storyline and moronic dialogue of this lame (but unintentionally hilarious) feature.

Very "loosely" based on the life of poor little rich girl Domino Harvey, the bounty hunting daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, the film generates its best laughs if viewed as the second part of a compare/contrast double bill with the 2005 version of "Pride and Prejudice". That is because both feature Kiera Knightley. The comparisons showcase Scott's staggering lack of acting for the camera directing ability. And the lines poor Kiera must say in Domino's voice-over commentary have a vague Jane Austen flavor, like something she would have written during the last stages of Mad Cow Disease. You listen and you feel yourself getting stupider.

Poor Kiera hasn't looked this silly since "King Arthur", where she also unconvincingly played a bratty tough-talking tomboy with clenched jaw and dour expression.

The most appropriate comment I have discovered about the film is that: "It wants your admiration desperately, like a psychedelic one-trick pony mad for a carrot". About the only favorable thing I can say is that "Domino" reminded me a tiny bit of Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point" (1970). Of course he did it first and he did it a lot better and it was burdened with far less silly nonsense.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

Domino
Not fun to watch. This entire film is shot in 1 to 4 second time frames (fast, up close, and out of focus) just like a stupid TV crime drama, which I freakin' hate. SUCKED!!!