The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Dear dear me! What a violent, ridiculous, flashy mess. A pretentious flop, trying SO hard to pull the wool over our eyes, pretending to be an important movie. Ha! As a seasoned reviewer, I am always suspicious of 10/10 ratings when a movie gains only around an average 6/10 or so on IMDb. Undoubtedly, this flick has been pushed up owing to many very high ratings. "dlahiff", for example, rates it 10/10, and has rated only ONE movie here on IMDb... titling his/her review "Tony Scott's Postmodern Masterpiece". Hmmm. Crazy! This is a silly, higgledy-piggledy film featuring several "stars", yet bringing very little of value to us. Of course, if you like flashing, flashy scenes of violence, relentless obscenities, blood, guns, and enjoy the presence of Keira with her odd accent, you may like this movie. I found it thoroughly distasteful and difficult to sit through, frankly. Don't waste your time. Because there are some even worse filme, I have rated this 2/10. #

Domino is Tony Scott's fire roasted, charbroiled masterpiece. I've seen it over ten times and every time I seem to enjoy it more. It's pure, unfiltered Scott, free from the nagging pressures of the studio, financed by his own company, a loving treatise of pure style and breakneck kamikaze energy that doesn't let you breathe for a second. It's based on the life of Hollywood baby turned rough and tumble bounty hunter Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), daughter of actor Laurence Harvey. She leaves the 90210 world of rich snobs to pursue a grittier path, in the form of restless underground law enforcement. Now, the film sheepishly admits it's not entirely based on a true story before the credits even start, so as long as you know how much is fantasy going in, you won't feel cheated. Knightley is an angry, sparking roman candle in the role of her career, shedding her dainty image and going full furious grunge, giving Domino an alternative edge and damaged pathos that fuels much of the film's kinetic energy. Mickey Rourke plays her grizzled boss Ed Moseby, a veteran bounty hunter with a trail of violence behind him, who's weary and tough in equal parts. Rourke fires on all cylinders, giving some of his best work. Edgar Ramiraz plays scrappy Choco, third musketeer and eventual lover for Domino. Christopher Walken waltzes in as a reality TV producer with the attention span of a ferret on chrystal meth, Mena Suvari as his squirrelly assistant, Lucy Liu as a prim, likely OCD federal agent, Delroy Lindo is excellent as their bail bondsman associate Claremont Williams, Tom Waits has a surreal cameo as a desert wanderer, and there's scuzzy work from Dale Dickey, Lew Temple, Macy Gray, Monique, Dabney Coleman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jerry Springer and more. This is the kind of movie that grabs you by the collar and hurls you down an asphalt horizon of hallucinatory camera work, an intricate, lurid story of true crime gone wrong, and a balls to the wall depiction of life at its fastest, wildest and most out of control, as only the maestro of such things, Tony Scott, can bring you. Knightley ironically says in voice-over near the end, "I'll never tell you what it all meant". The film has a similar sentiment towards its audience: come along for the ride, if you dare, experience the raw, titillating excess of a purely enjoyable shotgun blast of genre filmmaking, but don't expect an explanation, a rationalization or least of all an apology. It is what it is: a sketchy piece of action crime cinema loosely based on a girl's intense life, sure to get your blood coursing through your veins and your synapses firing in time to its relentless, trippy rhythm.

This movie is done in the style of one of Tony Scott's gritty, yet ultimately heartwarming, action movies. I very much enjoy Tony Scott's style and his movies, especially Man on Fire, with which this movie shares its frenetic visual and cinematic qualities. Domino is not, however, of the same quality of Tony Scott's previous work. It's unfocused, completely abandoning the reality show subplot part way, which is only there for a convenient source of "celebrity hostages." It attempts to be taken seriously as a crime movie, with a colorful cast and more double crosses than one cares to follow. It tries to be clever in its plot twists, despite being terribly telegraphed. However, it breaks character too often and shows itself for what it is: a dark humor movie, a sort of crime fantasy that becomes so ridiculous, it is no longer funny and becomes painful to watch. The over-the-top violence, played for humor, loses its attraction well before the movie is over. Many of the characters are unlikeable and/or racist stereotypes. I will say I liked Mo'Nique as Lateesha, providing this movie with some genuine humor desperately needed in a movie that tries so hard to be funny in so many terrible ways. At the beginning of the movie I was laughing because the movie was trying so hard to be ridiculous; by the end of the movie I was laughing because I couldn't believe that the movie was still desperately trying throw seemingly random bits of plot points together in the apparent hope that something would stick and provide some sort of entertainment. I truly believe that this movie could have been 20-30 minutes shorter without losing anything important. I really wish it had been. The movie's redeeming quality can be found in its main actors, like Mickey Rourke. I can't decide if I like Keira Knightley in this, but I'm sure the movie is better for having her in it. Mo'Nique of course steals every scene she is in. They all tried their hardest to play their characters and it shows. With a better script they definitely could have made this a good movie. As it is, it is simply okay.I was going to give this movie a 5/10 until the scene where Choco performs shotgun surgery on Fender because Domino misheard Claremont's instructions. Wacky misunderstandings like that get me every time.

I cannot begin to tell you how bad this film I cannot even give you a basic storyline too this film because it has unnecessary flashback shots which causes you to become completely lost what is actually happening after about two minutes Into the film. I generally struggled to watch all the way to the end of it what happens to me very rarely, I have taken nothing away from this film apart from feeling slightly frustrated that I wasted my time and money to buy this awful movie, If I can give you any advice do not buy this film. I had trouble even being able too make this review 10 lines as I cannot even fully remember what the story was about that's how little I took away from this movie possibly one of the worst films I've seen in quite a while.