Word: dominoed
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Keira Knightley gives a lapdance within the first 10 minutes of “Domino.” Christopher Walken is referred to as having “the attention span of a ferret on crystal meth.” There’s a naked mescaline-induced sex scene with Knightley in the middle of the Nevada desert. Vengeful mob bosses take cast members of “Beverly Hills: 90210” hostage...
...perfect action film. But director Tony Scott (“Top Gun”) and writer Richard Kelly (“Donnie Darko”) have tried to make “Domino”—a story loosely based on real-life model-turned-bounty-hunter Domino Harvey—far too complex and the pieces collapse under the weight...
...real Domino Harvey, whom Knightley portrays, was the daughter of British actor Laurence Harvey (“The Manchurian Candidate”) and a Los Angeles bounty hunter. She was recently found dead in her bathtub at the age of 36 after an overdose of painkillers. Scott glamorizes Domino’s life (ignoring her death except for a passing mention in the credits, since it happened during filming) in a pseudo-ironic and very unsuccessful way: he seems to both want to show Domino’s delusional love of her bizarre profession and to seduce his audience with...
...plot, as convoluted as it becomes after the first 40 minutes, is as such: Domino kicks butt as a bounty hunter alongside her boss Ed (Mickey Rourke) and his angry lackey Choco (Edgar Ramirez); their corrupt bail bondsmen employer and his entourage of “sassy black women” create a scam to raise money for their dying baby; they accidentally double-cross a mob boss and a corrupt businessman, requiring an even more illogical scam; and, simultaneously, Christopher Walken attempts to make a reality show about Domino...
Kelly’s penchant for absurd plot construction, which won over college-aged cult fans in “Donnie Darko,” simply serves to overcomplicate an already thinly stretched concept. At the unnecessary and melodramatic sexuality between Domino and Choco (Domino was actually bisexual), a plot twist involving Afghani liberation, and the segment on “The Jerry Springer Show,” one can’t help but think: “What the hell was the point of that? Go back to showing half-naked Keira shooting Vietnamese thugs...