Review of Dom Hemingway (2013) by Panta O — 04 May 2014
It wasn't a bad British black comedy-crime drama directed and written by Richard Shepard. Interesting choice of words... and poetry... used by the star Jude Law. Next to him you'll find Richard E. Grant, Demián Bichir, and Emilia Clarke. And they all did a very good job.
The story of an old school safecracker Dom Hemingway (Jude Law) who, after spending 12 years in prison for refusing to rat out his boss Ivan Fontaine (Demián Bichir), is released and seeks payment, was refreshingly different. He reunites with his best friend Dickie (Richard E. Grant) and they travel to Fontaine's villa in the French countryside. Dom flirts with Fontaine's Romanian girlfriend Paolina (M?d?lina Diana Ghenea) and becomes angry that he spent 12 years in jail for Fontaine. He begins to mock Fontaine and storms out. At dinner, he apologises and Fontaine presents Dom with £750,000... Is Dom now rich? Well... not really!
Fast paced story has its faults but is still keeping the audience interested until the end, mainly due to the hero's Dom Hemingway's misfortune which follows it until almost the end... Funny at moments, and raw around the edges most of the time... but never boring!
This review of Dom Hemingway (2013) was written by Panta O on 04 May 2014.
Dom Hemingway has generally received mixed reviews.
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