Review of Domino (1982) by Katie W — 16 Aug 2011

Featuring a highly visual segmented voice-over structure with the use of flashbacks, raw violence and garish violence Domino tells a "kind of" true story of a female bounty hunter. Director Tony Scott delivered a fun and stylized movie that was trying to be a little too much of something for everyone and the feeling was that there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

But, this is a fun movie, despite its murky plot and spastic overly kinetic structure. It's nice to see Keira Knightly playing this kind of action role. Edgar Ramirez was eye candy and his role didn't amount to much.

Mickey Rourke was, well, being himself and kept the movie together. Perhaps if the story was told in a linear way without flashbacks or voice-over it would have dragged or seemed boring. Also, the real-life Domino's bisexuality was clipped out of the story.

I'm not really sure if that would have mattered to anyone who slapped their cash down to see this kind of film... In the movie Domino ridicules her FBI interogator for being bisexual (played by Lucy Lu) rather than what could have been a really interesting seduction scene.

.. Panned by critics this movie will be reconsidered with time, simply because it's fun and has a lot of good things going on. Is it a great film? No. But it's one of the best of 2005, for what that is worth.