The first time I watched this film I thought it was maybe the worst movie I had ever seen. It was so overdone, overproduced, and the direction so poor. Moreover, the script was not the strongest. However, you are drawn in by the fact that this is a pretty impressive cast. And it is the cast that saves this film from itself. The three leads deliver, especially Rourke, who is great in everything. You also have Delray Lindo and others aiding the production. In the end, this film is like a drug, it might not be good for you, but I'll be damned if it is not addictive. If you are curious as to the story, I would say it was 99% fiction, even though it claims to be based on a true story, but hey, this is Hollywood.
... View MoreIf Domino Harvey's life were half as outlandish and audacious as Tony Scott's bizarre epic extravaganza "Domino," then this late bounty hunter must have lived life out in a blaze of glory. The daughter of late British film star Laurence Harvey, Domino was a peculiar doll. She lived at the zenith of opulence and his mother Sophie relocated to Beverly Hills where she landed another husband. Naturally, Domino turned into a peg that didn't fit into a square society. She didn't grow up like a princess searching for Prince Charming. She preferred to take the road less taken and taught herself how to use an arsenal of weapons. After she got expelled from college for breaking a sorority girl's nose, she sat in on a bounty hunter's seminar and became a skip tracer. Bail bondsman Claremont Williams (Delroy Lindo) and bounty hunters Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke) and Choco (Edgar Ramirez) attempted to scam all the people who attended the seminar by slipping out the back door during a break and absconding with the $99 entrance fee. They manage to pull the wool over everybody's eyes except Domino who walked in front the car that Ed drove. The three of them became best friends forever. Afterward, everything unraveled with a vengeance that involved a group of wacky mafia teens, a group of Department of Motor Vehicle divas, and a treacherous, two-timing bail bondsman Claremont. Before everything is over, Domino and her friends find themselves the subject of a reality TV shop from the WB run by nutty producer Mark Heiss (Christopher Walken) who wants to put Domino under contract. Literally, scenarist Richard Kelly puts the plot that "Last Seduction" writer Steve Barancik and he concocted into a blender and you cannot really tell where this entertaining but convoluted nonsense is going half the time during its 127 minute careening, out of control story. The cast is top-notch with sculpturesque Keira Knightley cast as the real-life heroine who died shortly after filming was completed. You can catch a glimpse of the real Domino in the end credits.
... View MoreI have to give this show a 10. My husband was an extra in this show in Vegas. i actually got to meet Ian Zering and Keira. if you watch the movie you will see him walk in front of the cab parked in valet. he looks at Keira and she at him. Also he is sitting in the bar. it has a lot of very good action scenes. And very interesting when Domino gets to tell her life story. I like this movie because there is a mixture of suspense and a whole lot of action. I think keira Knightly did a bang up job in this movie"literally". I like her acting bette4r in this movie as "Domino" than on pirates. She is a very good actress with multi talents.
... View MoreI wanted to see this movie for several years and got the chance yesterday.After about a hour I had totally lost interest in the movie and started just speeding through.So what went wrong?I wanted to see the real story of the Bounty hunter Domino.... but after an hour I was like....... is this for real?The story line and the characters just turned out to be "off" the casting totally failed in this one and properly also cause of the poor writing I didn't care about any of the characters through the hole movie they all just seems like jerks - but maybe it was not the point to make any characters likable nor give them any qualities of interestthe clipping fourth and back got annoying and the appearance of Beverly Hills 90210 Characters was that for real? and the story about the robbery just got to stupid - the first ladies just disappearing with out the money.....TO many questions appeared and I really didn't care about it no more as I could see the movie had about an hour leftI give the movie 4 stars as I liked the photography style of the movie and it at least tried to be interesting though it failed completely
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