I think Tony Scott might actually be some sort of evil genius bent on driving epileptics into seizures. All he has achieved in film is just a mere stepping stone to his diabolical plan.
Yeah. I was actually excited to see Domino, as I liked Man on Fire a ton, with its softening of Creasy and slow buildup to the kidnapping and Creasy's cold exacting revenge. This doesn't really come close to that.
Domino has no subtlety at all. It's all flash and noise, sound and fury and whatnot. The movie actually manages to be dull, despite the constant visual tomfoolery and deliberately convoluted plot.
It's a story about a jaded dropout ex-model who becomes a bounty hunter because it looks interesting. It sounds crazy, but according to the opening titles, it's "based on a true story--sort of." It is crazy, but only because there are so many double- and triple-crosses injected into the plot, you eventually just sit back and stare at the fiercely strobing Keira Knightley up on the screen.
Mickey Rourke was, as always, cool. Tom Waits has a guest appearance as a traveling preacher-oracle guy in the desert who holds forth prophecy to the bounty hunters while--wait for it--a Tom Waits song is playing in the background! Meta-film at its best!
I'm going to refuse to rate this on the grounds that I can and what are you going to do about it?
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