Domino (2005)

Domino (R) - Review

"We all fall down."

Director Tony Scott (True Romance) had his editing machine on "Frappe" for Domino, scenes jag by in the quasi-biographical story of a could-be fashion star turned female bounty hunter working in South Los Angeles called Domino.  He paid the real Domino for her true life story, and then had writer Richard Kelley (Southland Tales) to grind it through his bizarro grinder.  The result is a grimy tale about a femme merc, played by Kiera Knightly (Pirates of the Caribbean), a pretty but tough girl known for being underestimated by her colleagues and those she is tracking.  The movie unfolds as a police interrogation about a robbery, from there the scenes ricochet by with inhuman speed which is a Tony Scott film signature that has gotten out of hand.  Mickey Rourke grunts an appearance as the degenerate bail bonds team leader and the cast gets sprinkles of life from Mo'nique or Macy Gray.  However the film is a unmitigated bomb crater due to the pieced together narrative, schizo characterizations and script writing, patently stupid voice over narration, convoluted plot, dreary over all mood and an apocalyptic level of scene cross cutting (especially during the action scenes).  When the final Las Vegas shoot out high atop the Stratosphere occurs and the credits roll, a flood of relief from the visual cortex is likely to occur; the brain can only take so much posturing, screaming, fragmenting, shooting or slumming in one sitting.  

3 Terrible Post 9-11 Foreign National Characters out of 10 (BAD)