Domino (2005)

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.

Director:

Tony Scott

Writers:

Richard Kelly (screenplay), Richard Kelly (story),

Stars:

Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Édgar Ramírez

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Keira Knightley	...	Domino Harvey
Mickey Rourke	...	Ed Moseby
Édgar Ramírez	...	Choco (as Edgar Ramirez)
Delroy Lindo	...	Claremont Williams
Mo'Nique	...	Lateesha Rodriguez
Mena Suvari	...	Kimmie
Macy Gray	...	Lashandra Davis
Jacqueline Bisset	...	Sophie Wynn
Dabney Coleman	...	Drake Bishop
Brian Austin Green	...	Brian Austin Green
Ian Ziering	...	Ian Ziering
Stanley Kamel	...	Anthony Cigliutti
Peter Jacobson	...	Burke Beckett
T.K. Carter	...	Lester Kincaid
Kel O'Neill	...	Frances

Storyline

The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while the FBI is monitoring two gangs of mobsters.

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Plot Keywords:

bounty hunter | model | reality show | mafia | black panties | 

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Taglines:

Heads You Live... Tails You Die.

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Genres:

Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Official Sites:

CMC [tw] Constantin Film [de]

Country:

France USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 October 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Domino - A Caçadora de Recompensas

Filming Locations:

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

Box Office

Budget:

$50,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$316,097 (Australia) (2 December 2005)

Gross:

$1,063,044 (Australia) (16 December 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Scott Free Productions, Davis-Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

127 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Tony Scott met Domino ten years previously to make a movie of her life but only nailed the script when Richard Kelly came on board in 2002, creating the whole DMV plot to tie everything together.

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Goofs

When Choco and Ed are arguing in the hotel room, Choco cocks his revolver twice without uncocking in-between, but this is more likely to be a repetition of the first cocking, which is frequently done throughout the film, repeating lines and actions after they have occurred.

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Quotes

Ed: [about Domino] You and I walk down the street, what do people see? A couple of losers, right? We add her to the equation you know what people are gonna think?
Choco: What?
Ed: There goes two of the coolest motherfuckers who ever lived. Hmm?
Choco: You know what? I don't know about you, man, but I'm already a cool motherfucker, you know?

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Crazy Credits

The film opens with a title card reading "This is based on a true story" followed by one that reads "Sort of."

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Connections

Features Wogan (1982)

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Soundtracks

"Am I Really That Bad"
Written by Domino Harvey, Jan Pomerans and Solomon Mansoor
Performed by Domino Harvey (as Domino) and the Dagger Baileys

User Reviews

You'll love it or hate it – it's a stylistic thing

My name is Domino Harvery. {EDIT *dizzying* CHOP} My--my--my name is Domino Harvey. {CUT, CHOP} My name is Domino Harvey. {EDIT. CUT. Playback}

Never have I seen a director take so much flack for his style before. By now it is evident that most people do not appreciate Tony Scott's choppy, flashy, dizzying editing technique. If I have to choose between loving it and hating it, I'd say I love it. It was borderline distracting at times, but the end result was pretty good and it's nice to see a director with a creative edge to his style and some originality (even if it borrows heavily from MTV videos).

This stylistic edge manifests itself as Keira Knightley plays the role of cocky badass bounty hunter Domino Harvey and even her dialogue seems strangely choppy. Otherwise she plays her poorly because I pretty much hated her character and did not sympathize one bit with her, no matter how much she suffered. We follow Domino through her life as she joins up with fellow bounty hunters Mickey Rourke, Rizwan Abbasi and Edgar Ramirez. The crew become tangled up in the FBI and suddenly has a reality show contract under Christopher Walken's TV production company (what is Christopher Walken doing in every film, by the way?). I guess that is a clever film technique, because now Tony Scott is free to use as much flashy MTV/Reality Show editing footage as he likes. It becomes a pastiche of MTV culture at this point.

It followes then that the story is told at an amazingly rapid-fire pace, with lots of raunchy strong language and gun violence. There are some funny jokes; it's all very modern and surreal at the same time. It's a mess, but it's a rather enjoyable mess. It is ultimately flawed in so many ways (the actors try too hard to make their characters "cool", for one) but it works. I give it a weak 7/10 which may seem generous when compared to the general consensus of movie-goers who graded this film — but I feel it had some good ideas and executed them well.

7 out of 10