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Domino
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Final Verdict: [Pretty Good]
Domino
Action / English / 2005
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Now THIS is how you can be visually interesting.
None of that color filter bloom ****, you actually shift the hues and saturation of each shot, splicing in slow-mo and speed-ramp edits to keep things alive and movin' with emphasis on exactly what you want.
Domino does this and I really appreciate it because without the sharp visual flair I think it would be a much less interesting movie.
NOT TO SAY that I didn't get what I signed up for. Keira Knightley pulls off Badass Action Girl #1 fantastically and I'm pleased with the scenes she's allowed to steal. UP UNTIL about the halfway mark, see around that point we give up on this "history of my life" narrated play-by-play and focus on the crime caper we're flashing back to which requires a MASSIVE amount of difficult-to-keep-up-with setup and frankly the whole movie thinks it's own little Ocean's Eleven is way more interesting than it actually is.
Shortly after we establish Domino's spot on the team of bounty hunters between Ed and Choco, we establish Choco is resistant to having her join, we leap to their mutual yet unshared sexual attraction towards one another, then we have a scene where Domino unpleasantly yelling at Choco, and you know let me take just a second to say that Keira Knightley with her mouth wide open and expressing upsettedness doesn't work, she should just not do that (she even has a Reb Brown moment at the end which is just... funny).
Then the daytime hooker from My Name Is Earl spikes their coffee with mescaline, they get ****ed up, the oversaturated visuals suddenly become TOO MUCH, and Domino and Choco have sex.
*SIGH* Great. Nice roma- .... *SIGH*
Then suddenly this preacher rolls up and starts calling Domino an "angel of fire" and what the hell, is the movie trying to be ABOUT something now?
I think you give up that right the second you include an extended scene in your movie in which Mo'Nique goes on Jerry Springer as the world's youngest grandmother to tell us all why we should be more inclusive of the "Blacktino" and "ChiNegro" population.
At least it helps to bust into song anytime the characters do something horrible.
Also dogs and goldfish. ESPECIALLY the goldfish, because they were flushed down toilets more than once.
All in all it seems to be an entertaining, if admitted, wild exaggeration of the life of Domino Harvey. I could complain about the thick sexualization of Domino, but considering that the real Domino was on set, it makes me wonder if that wasn't exactly what she would have gotten a kick out of. Something tells me yes.
None of that color filter bloom ****, you actually shift the hues and saturation of each shot, splicing in slow-mo and speed-ramp edits to keep things alive and movin' with emphasis on exactly what you want.
Domino does this and I really appreciate it because without the sharp visual flair I think it would be a much less interesting movie.
NOT TO SAY that I didn't get what I signed up for. Keira Knightley pulls off Badass Action Girl #1 fantastically and I'm pleased with the scenes she's allowed to steal. UP UNTIL about the halfway mark, see around that point we give up on this "history of my life" narrated play-by-play and focus on the crime caper we're flashing back to which requires a MASSIVE amount of difficult-to-keep-up-with setup and frankly the whole movie thinks it's own little Ocean's Eleven is way more interesting than it actually is.
Shortly after we establish Domino's spot on the team of bounty hunters between Ed and Choco, we establish Choco is resistant to having her join, we leap to their mutual yet unshared sexual attraction towards one another, then we have a scene where Domino unpleasantly yelling at Choco, and you know let me take just a second to say that Keira Knightley with her mouth wide open and expressing upsettedness doesn't work, she should just not do that (she even has a Reb Brown moment at the end which is just... funny).
Then the daytime hooker from My Name Is Earl spikes their coffee with mescaline, they get ****ed up, the oversaturated visuals suddenly become TOO MUCH, and Domino and Choco have sex.
*SIGH* Great. Nice roma- .... *SIGH*
Then suddenly this preacher rolls up and starts calling Domino an "angel of fire" and what the hell, is the movie trying to be ABOUT something now?
I think you give up that right the second you include an extended scene in your movie in which Mo'Nique goes on Jerry Springer as the world's youngest grandmother to tell us all why we should be more inclusive of the "Blacktino" and "ChiNegro" population.
At least it helps to bust into song anytime the characters do something horrible.
Also dogs and goldfish. ESPECIALLY the goldfish, because they were flushed down toilets more than once.
All in all it seems to be an entertaining, if admitted, wild exaggeration of the life of Domino Harvey. I could complain about the thick sexualization of Domino, but considering that the real Domino was on set, it makes me wonder if that wasn't exactly what she would have gotten a kick out of. Something tells me yes.