Domino [WS]

Director: Mickey Rourke, Keira Knightley, Édgar Ramírez Mickey Rourke

Overview

Keira Knightley stars in the title role of this Tony Scott action comedy that offers an openly fictionalized account of the life of bounty hunter Domino Harvey. In the film, the restless Domino rejects the privileged life she has been given as the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey (Jesse Pate), who dies when she is only eight, and Ford model Sophie Wynn (Jacqueline Bisset). Despite being both beautiful and clever, Domino also bucks against her own budding career as a Ford model, and recklessly rebels from both boarding school and college. She is fun-loving to the point of volatility, but after taking a class offered by "bail recovery agent" (i.e., bounty hunter) Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke), she joins up with him and his partner Choco (Edgar Ramirez) to form a three-person team. This rough and tumble occupation provides Domino with a satisfying adrenaline-oriented lifestyle as well as the flattering attention of Choco, who immediately "fancies" her. Soon, talk of an English rose chasing down Southern California's worst drug dealers and murderers with a massive firearm begins to spread, and Domino's reputation begins to reach urban-legendary proportions. At this point she is approached by television executive Mark Heiss (Christopher Walken) who proposes a reality TV series based on her life as a bounty hunter. Soon after the project begins, however, complications during a job land her in a tight spot with both the mob and the FBI, and she is forced to give her own account of the events -- an account which the audience is unable to verify. The unreliability of Domino's story in the film serves as a tongue-in-cheek parallel of the tabloid representation of the real Domino Harvey, who accused multiple publications of misrepresenting her, and was reportedly considering suing several media outlets before her death on June 27, 2005, of a suspected drug overdose.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/21/2006
UPC:	0794043101366
Original Release:	2005
Rating:	R
Source:	New Line Home Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Digital Theater Systems]
Language:	English
Time:	2:08:00
Sales rank:	2,271

Special Features

Closed Caption;"I am a bounty hunter: Domino Harvey's life"; "Bounty hunting on acid: Tony Scotts's visual style" featurette; Deleted scenes; And more!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Keira Knightley	Domino Harvey
Edgar Ramírez	Choco,Actor
Rizwan Abbasi	Alf,Alf
Mo'Nique	Lateesha Rodriguez
Macy Gray	Lashandra Davis
Joseph Nunez	Raul
Brian Austin Green	Himself
Dabney Coleman	Drake Bishop
Jacqueline Bisset	Sophie Wynn
Christopher Walken	Mark Heiss
Mena Suvari	Kimmie
Ian Ziering	Himself
Shondrella Avery	Lashindra Davis
Tabitha Brownstone	Young Domino
Stanley Kamel	Anthony Cigliutti
Peter Jacobson	Burke Beckett
T.K. Carter	Lester Kincaid
Kel O'Neill	Frances
Lew Temple	Locus Fender
Tom Waits	Wanderer
Liza Lapira	Actor
Edgar Ramirez	Actor
Harry Gregson-Williams	Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Kelly

Toby Emmerich

Mickey Rourke	Director
Keira Knightley	Director
Édgar Ramírez	Director
Tony Scott	Producer,Producer
Samuel Hadida	Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Barry Waldman	Producer,Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Zach Schiff-Abrams	Producer,Executive Producer
Skip Chaisson	Producer,Executive Producer
Zach Shiff-Abrams	Executive Producer
Lisa Ellzey	Executive Producer
Richard Kelly	Screenwriter
Denise Chamian	Casting
Toby Emmerich	Executive Producer,Screenwriter
David Hadida	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

Tony Scott's Domino is lacquered with such gobs of stylistic excess, it would make McG blush. But this movie has little in common with McG's light-hearted Charlie's Angels movies, beyond briefly alluding to them and featuring Lucy Liu. Instead, it's a violent, depraved collage of iconographic porn, fetishizing everything from cigarette smoking to pencil sharpening, and shot with a stroke-inducing reliance on swish pans and flashing lights. It's not just style over substance; style murders substance, using those double-barreled machine guns Keira Knightley wields in the ads. Granted, the life of model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey is pretty ostentatious source material, but Scott turns Richard Kelly's showy script into one giant middle finger at good taste. Scott was clearly hoping for a multi-character, pop-influenced crime thriller like his own True Romance, and the bones of the story do sometimes work in that way. And in a postmodern crossover with real life, Beverly Hills 90210 stars Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering appear as themselves, hosting a reality show centered on Domino's team. But any marginally interesting ideas are drowned by superfluous technique, including but not limited to: looping and tweaking of spoken lines, choice bits of dialogue typed out on screen for emphasis, and so much manipulating of film stock, it's like a test drive of a graphics program. Such glossy bombast can't help but culminate in a ridiculous Mexican standoff at the top of the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas. If only hacks were involved in the making of Domino, it would be one thing, but the good reputations of Scott and Kelly duped numerous appealing actors into participating. Domino marked the beginning of a really bad year for Kelly, the golden boy behind Donnie Darko, whose sophomore directing effort (Southland Tales) was subsequently laughed out of Cannes.