Domino (2005)

Director:

Tony Scott

Writers (WGA):

Richard Kelly (screenplay)
Richard Kelly (story) ...

Release Date:

14 October 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

I Am a Bounty Hunter

Plot:

A recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

Plot Keywords:

Talk Show | Nunchaku | Afghanistan | Narration | Dog

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Keira Knightley	...	Domino Harvey
Mickey Rourke	...	Ed Mosbey
Edgar Ramirez	...	Choco
Riz Abbasi	...	Alf (as Rizwan Abbasi)
Delroy Lindo	...	Claremont Williams
Mo'Nique	...	Lateesha Rodriguez
Ian Ziering	...	Himself
Brian Austin Green	...	Himself
Joe Nunez	...	Raul (as Joseph Nunez)
Macy Gray	...	Lashandra Davis
Shondrella Avery	...	Lashindra Davis
Dabney Coleman	...	Drake Bishop
Peter Jacobson	...	Burke Beckett
Kel O'Neill	...	Francis
Lucy Liu	...	Taryn Miles

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content/nudity and drug use.

Runtime:

127 min

Country:

France | USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Ireland:18 (DVD rating) | UK:15 | Czech Republic:15 | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Hungary:16 | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18PL | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Ireland:16 | Singapore:M18 (cut) | Australia:MA | South Africa:16 | Norway:15 | Netherlands:16 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-15 | Argentina:16 | New Zealand:R16 | France:-12 | Sweden:11 | USA:R (certificate #41701) | Germany:16 | Brazil:18 | Singapore:M18 | Italy:T | Philippines:R-13 | Japan:R-15 | Indonesia:Dewasa

Filming Locations:

Alexandria Hotel - 501 S. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

Jacqueline Bisset, who plays Domino's mother (renamed Sophie Wynn in the film), actually knew Domino Harvey's real life mother Paulene Stone. They knew each other from their time as models and had worked together.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the flashback to Domino at the beach and boardwalk with her dad in England/1993, you can clearly see stuffed animal prizes of "Nemo" the fish from "Finding Nemo" around the carnival games... "Finding Nemo" didn't come out until 2003. And, incidentally, this scene was shot on the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles.

Quotes:

Mark Heiss: You tell Domino Harvey that nobody messes with Mark Heiss! Nobody messes with the WB!

Movie Connections:

References Enter the Dragon (1973)

Soundtrack:

Lashindra Lashandra Rap

An enjoyable mess

I liked 'Domino' even though the movie felt like a total mess. Describing the plot would be as much help to you as saying there was a beginning and an end, so I might as well just do that. I could tell you that Domino Harvey (Keire Knightley), once a model, has turned into a bounty hunter under the leadership of Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke). Also part of their team is Choco (Edgar Ramirez), who looks like a Latino version of Val Kilmer. The movie also involves mafia, stolen money, a man with an arm detached from his body, Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green from 'Beverly Hills 90210' as themselves, sisters named Lashandra and Lashindra, and a Jerry Springer-sequence that could have been a comedy short on its own.

I liked all of it for multiple reasons, its energy being one of them. The movie feels like one long music video, even more than films like 'Trainspotting', 'Go' and 'The Rules of Attraction' (funny how they all deal with drugs in one way or another), but it never becomes exhausting. It is one of those films where style over substance succeeds, maybe not in great way, but simply in a way. I also liked it for the actors. Keira Knightley is convincing as a tough girl, even more admirable after just seeing her as a naughty but delicate girl in 'Pride & Prejudice'. Mickey Rourke is back with extraordinary performance in films such as 'Spun', 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico', 'Sin City', and now 'Domino'. Not only them, but also Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Tom Waits and especially Christopher Walken (as the producer of a reality show the team is doing) give the movie something extra to enjoy. It is exactly what this movie is, enjoyable.