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Wanna know everything wrong with American films and even America's youth? Look no further then Tony Scott's "Domino". A film perfect for the generation which has ADD, gets off on non stop explosions, noise, violence, and mindless mayhem. Check your brain at the door, as it won't be needed for this ugly, depressing, disgusting, idiotic, and brainless waste of time called "Domino". I only wish I had see this movie earlier as it surely would have made my top 10 worst films of 2005. I'm not naive enough to say there is not a market for these types of films and they can be done well. Films that just wanna blow things up, look good doing it, cut peoples arms off, butcher the English language, and just be plain "bad ass". But at 2 hours and 7 minutes of this piece of junk, you're really testing my patience and my will power. Give us 88 minutes of it, have some playfull speech, get it, do your stuff, get out and let us go home. There is no need to keep this length at 2 hours, 7 minutes. "Domino" stars Keira Knightley, who I love, but she is gravely miscast and over her head as Domino Harvey, a model who wants to become a bounty hunter. Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke), who I also love, looks bored and just to be collecting a pay check as he plays the leader of this bounty hunter group which also includes Choco (Edgar Ramirez), who has about as much personality as dry paint. These are the people we have to endure and I guess get behind and enjoy for 2 hours, and 7 minutes. Anytime you make Keira and Rourke boring to me, you have committed the biggest cinematic crime in history. To even attempt to explain "Domino" plot wise would require time, patience, strength, energy that I sadly do not posses after viewing this film. The gist of it is the mafia, stolen money, a one armed man (not from "The Fugitive", although boy do I wish), Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green from 'Beverly Hills 90210' as themselves in a reality based show with Christoper Walken as the head of it, the DMV, and a senseless Jerry Springer segment, which is funny, but completely unnecessary. If you can somehow follow and understand this dribble, you're a better man, then I am. Most irritating of all is the style of "Domino". Greenish saturated colors, quick shots, voice overs, triple shots, repeated lines are used throughout the duration of this film. Movie geeks and dorks might find it stylish and innovate, I found it distracting, blinding, and paralyzing. I am still blinking my eyes trying to recover my sight. This is a film that should come with a warning about seizures being caused by it's frantic and annoying style. It's brutal. The biggest failing of "Domino" is that the bounty hunters are not interesting at all. They are boring cardboard cut outs who just cuss and kill people. Look at all the successful kill fest movies, everyone has has interesting people who say interesting things. The people in "Domino" are video game characters. There was nothing about it I really engaged with, or cared or, there's a lot of stuff happening on the screen, lots of noise, people running all around and who cares? So films are so bad you still want to see where they are going to and what they are going to do, with "Domino", I knew it was just going to be relentless and keep doing the same thing over and over and over again. -Tony Farinella Grade: F email this review to a friend
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