Domino

Bomb Rating: 

This movie badly reeks of "True Romance" stench. Does director Tony Scott have nothing better to do than rip himself off?

Anybody else in the room give even the remotest shit about Domino Harvey, the real-life daughter of "Manchurian Candidate" actor Laurence Harvey and part-time model/bounty hunter? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? I didn't think so.

Such is the problem with this all-style no-substance film from director Tony ("Top Gun") Scott, who seems interested in Domino Harvey and not in a healthy way. Instead, his interest seems to involve some sort of twisted, pathological love that involves late nights in the bathroom with lots of toilet tissue and razor blade cuts.

This movie badly reeks of "True Romance" stench. Does director Tony Scott have nothing better to do than rip himself off? At least "True Romance" was something of a love story couched in the ironic haze of violence and gunfire. "Domino" is a lame attempt to repeat that formula minus the love story and replacing the chemistry of Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper with Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering, former stars of "90210." Just to make sure we don't forget this film's inspiration, Scott does cast Walken as a TV producer who develops a reality show starring Domino (Keira Knightley), her bounty hunting boss, Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke), and co-worker, Choco (Edgar Ramirez). Scott's predictable cameo parade includes Delroy Lindo, Dabney Coleman, Lucy Liu, Jacqueline Bisset and Mena Suvari.

My recommendation to Tony Scott would be to get himself a real story before he makes another movie. What's even sadder is that this film is penned by "Donnie Darko" scribe Richard Kelly, who appears to have blown a gasket over his lack of work and effectively prostituted himself for a paycheck. Given that screenwriters rarely have control over their scripts, however, it's fair to assume that this mess was almost entirely concocted by Scott, who uses every manner of camera trick to hide what seems to be a creeping realization that he may be the only one on Earth interested in Domino's story.

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