Domino

October 9, 2005

Rated: R Runtime: 120 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Based ‘very,very’ loosely on the life of former model and sorority girl Domino Harvey comes a pretty cool action flick from Tony Scott, and crew. I along with many others do not know where the real ends and the movie begins, but I can almost guarantee no one else can either. If you ask me and you are if you are reading this; there isn’t much real in any of this 2 hour action packed adventure tale. Let’s analyze, shall we?

Domino Real life Domino was the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey and born in 1970 BUT, this Domino was born in 1985. Real life Domino looks like a cross between Annie Lenox with bad teeth and a cross dressing used car salesman, this Domino looks like Elizabeth Turner from the Pirates movies. I prefer the Pirates chick.

“The Movie” starts out with young Domino attending her fathers funeral and from here spends the next few years bouncing from home to home while mom lands someone comparable to Laurence. This makes Domino resentful, rebellious and bored with her socialite existence so she goes all out to not fit in. She gets booted out of college and believe it or not she’s too violent for modeling? This is a chick that has no place in society. So, one day she sees an ad for a bounty hunter seminar and decides to give it a shot. Of course this seminar is nothing but a scam being ran by master skip tracer ‘Ed’ (Mickey Rourke) and his silent but violent sidekick Choco (Ramirez). Domino is quick to their scam and demands to get what she paid for and learn the bounty hunter biz.

Ed agrees and gives Domino a job on the condition that she doesn’t get him or Choco shot. The first mission (according to the movie) is a former gang banger in the wind, that’s hiding out in his girlfriends place. Ed asks the GF where the thug is located and in a very convincing display claims he is a cheating SOB and she has nothing for him anymore and if they wanted him to look across the street. The crew heads to the house in question with guns up, but instead of finding one banger with an active warrant, they find a house full of heavily armed killers. Things look bad for the hunters until Ms. Knightly decides to offer a lap dance in exchange for the real location? WTF??? A lap dance? It is a damn good one however so the bangers hand over their partner in crime; Thus beginning a career of people hunting for the model.

This movie is full of action and humor and if you don’t spend too much time trying to decide what is real and what is fantasy, you will enjoy yourself quite a bit. Walken is funny as always, Delroy Lindo is good as usual and the biggest surprising performances come from former 90210 stars Ian Zierring and Brian Austin Green. They are both very funny as ‘celebrity’ hostages.

Posted by J.C. Edwards | Filed Under 4 Stars, Action, Christopher Walken, Edgar Ramirez, Keira Knightly, Lucy Liu, Mickey Rourke, R, Theatrical