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| Director
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Tony Scott
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| Starring
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Keira Knightley
Mickey Rourke
Edgar Ramirez |
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| The plot of
Domino |
How
did the daughter (Knightley) of actor Laurence
Harvey go from being a Ford model to becoming
a bounty hunter? |
Domino
Movie Review
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Review by TODD
MCCARTHY
Why would the owners of Las Vegas' Stratosphere want
to see their high-rise landmark blown up onscreen? That
such an event climaxes this helter-skelter biopicbiopic,
however fictionalized, is merely the most unsettling
of the numerous dislocations evident in "Domino,"
Tony ScottTony Scott's aggressively grungy look at the
life of the late femme bounty hunter Domino Harvey.
Subject's novelty value and Keira KnightleyKeira Knightley
in her first bad-ass role will provide some draw, but
pic is satisfying neither as character study nor as
straight-ahead actioner. Result is a between-the-cracks
entertainment that might accrue a limited devoted fan
base but appears destined for middling bizbiz overall.A
friend of Harvey's for the last 15 years of her life
(she died in June of an apparent overdose, after the
film was completed), Scott never intended to make a
straightforward account of her eventful, troubled life.
Choice of Richard KellyRichard Kelly ("Donnie Darko""Donnie
Darko") as screenwriter further guaranteed an unconventional
approach, one that deliberately jumbles the narrative,
possibly mixes reality and fantasy and, as is Scott's
wont, decisively favors surface effect over depth or
coherence....more..
Review By Sally
Kline:
What can you say about
a movie cast that juxtaposes notorious wacko Mickey
Rourke, homegirl Mo’Nique, sleazemeister Jerry
Springer and “Beverly Hills 90210’s”
Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green, along with Macy
Gray, Dabney Coleman, Lucy Liu and — naturally
— Christopher Walken? Could it be a big-screen
version of VH1’s “Surreal Life”?Nah.The
over-the-top stylized and bloody action-adventure “Domino”
satirizes one actual surreal life in particular: It
belonged to Domino Harvey, the recently deceased English
rose who rebelled against her posh upbringing as the
daughter of well-known mid-century movie star Lawrence
Harvey to become a semifamous model/punk/bounty hunter.
She’s played here by “Pirates of the Caribbean”
star Keira Knightley, bravely attempting an uncharacteristic
role for which she never seems quite right.....More..
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