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The daughter of respected actor and matinee idol Lawrence Harvey, and model-turned-socialite Sophie Wynn, Domino Harvey was born into a life of wealth and privilege -- a lifestyle that did not interes...( read more 
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MCT:July 21, 2008My original comments on Domino, around the time of its theatrical release:
I am suddenly struck with the strong desire to see:
[...]3) Domino.
I know, I know.
Tony Scott? MTV jumpy editing? Boom bang action? Blah blah blah?
Well, I liked Man on Fire quite a bit. I don't fault Tony for choosing the route he has (a freely admitted "I'm making commercial movies") and don't see anything wrong with it either.
The editing in Hombre de Fuego (tee hee!) was appropriate to my admittedly peculiar sense of aesthetics, and worked quite well. Plus, hey...how many DVDs worth of music videos do I own? I grew up on the shit and dearly love music videos--why would I hate that style of editing?
And, finally:
Mickey Rourke...and...TOM FUCKING WAITS.
As I read Roger Ebert's (3 star!) review, I only needed to read the above name to seal my decision to see this movie. If Tom's in it, by god it will be good.
(also, it was written by Richard "Donnie Darko" Kelly. And it has Mickey Rourke, as I said. Plus I thought the later trailers looked interesting..unlike that awful "DOMINO! domino DOMINO domino domino DOMINO DOMINO!" teaser....)
A little frenetic, admittedly (it comes from my regular journal, as well as 3 fewer years of experience with life) but it contains the essence of my interest in the film. Man on Fire is the Tony Scott film Domino bears its strongest resemblance to. The same fluttering, flashing cuts, rapidfire editing and brightening and darkening images recalled that previous film quite acutely. Certainly, Tony does not ever bother with the kind of imagery his brother Ridley does, that meticulously crafted, beautiful image. Tony aims more for the gut, a sucker punch of action and kinetic, lockstep action, his control over the pacing and action and interest of the viewer his greater talent.
Based on the actual bounty hunter of the same name, daughter of Manchurian Candidate Laurence Harvey, Keira Knightley plays Domino as a tough girl who rebels against and rejects the pampered life her mother aims to leave her with, instead choosing to become, well, a bounty hunter, under the tutelage of Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke, based on Ed Martinez) and with the partnership of Choco (Edgar Ramirez), the two already employed by Claremont Williams III (Delroy Lindo), a bail bondsman. The plot is ridiculously intricate and twisted (I would expect no less from Richard Kelly, whose focus seems to always be on plot over characterization, as I've said of other things--method, not flaw) with backstabbings and double-crosses, coincidences and chances all moving everything inexorably toward its finish. It's not quite Guy Ritchie insanity of plot, but it's certainly not straightforward as it moves. As such, performances only stand out if they try to defy the dialogue or plotting, pushing too hard against their boundaries--as Lucy Liu (shock! surprise!) does, in a ridiculously false physicality that betrays her unusually appropriate vocal tenor and mannerism. I was pleased with her at first (considering my notorious hatred of her horribly miscast role in Kill Bill) until her motions of pencil sharpening and glass moving began to show that same artificial understanding of movement--that feel that we were seeing Lucy Liu deciding what the person who was sitting in that chair was supposed to do in that moment, rather than her character acting on it. But, of course, it was a small role and did nothing to destroy the film.
Christopher Walken's role as producer Mark Heiss was one of the beacons of humour (other than the self-effacing roles of Beverly Hills, 90210 stars Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering as themselves), portraying the cynical view of reality television, but not without at least a note of resigned acceptance by its producers--though with an amusing touch of frustration with the realistic nature of the reality they attempted to film ("Too psychotic!"). Waits' brief role was the heart of the film, the guidance for Domino and her compatriots.
For all the fun though, something definitely doesn't quite congeal. It's not a bad film, it's rather entertaining, with nothing easy to single out as a weakness, except perhaps Tony's style--which differs very little from Man on Fire. Overlapping, overexposed images, strong grain, thick, warm colour filters--it feels too familiar, and less like it's a stylistic choice made for its relevance and more like Tony just likes it, and does not give a great amount of thought to its relevance or lack thereof--though, at the same time, it manages to show that it can fit both with a rather serious, dark film and a rather amusing, far less dark, far more upbeat and humorous one like this one, and still feel appropriate for all its inherent repetition. -
MCT:July 4, 2008INTERESTED
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MCT:January 28, 2008
The kind of film everyone hated but I didn't. An overblown, frantic, giddily exciting, eye-popping exercise in visual artistry over internal three-dimensionality. The script has holes, it does, and Tony Scott was always more interested in 'playing' visually with the film than in its characters. But the basic dynamics between Knightley, Rourke and Ramirez sounded genuine enough to me. And... in the end, the film is just a hell of a fun to watch. All those who didn't manage to see beyond the film's flaws, it's their loss.
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MCT:January 22, 2008An immensely thrilling actioner that packs a hard & long punch. Keira Knightley delivers her best badass action-heroine performance since "Pirates Of The Caribbean".
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MCT:November 1, 2007I knew this was going to be a disappointment.
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MCT:November 7, 2008
This is one of those films in which a director just threw a bunch of well known actors together and hoped something would happen. Unfortunately, nothing particularly good happened. What a travesty.
Comments
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atibariposted 533 days ago -
Loved the movie... But why couldn't they use the kiss song domino in the movie.. it fits so perfect....
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6k1o_keira-knightley-domino-a-tribute
The striptease is here. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvhsn_keiraknightleysexydanceposted 628 days ago -
I loved this movie soo much I don't understand why people wouldnt but I guess that is there opinion
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