Domino

I'm tired from a long day, so I'm dispensing with any further thinking tonight. Hence a movie review -- of sorts. I saw Domino a while back when it first hit the theatres, with the guys from work. It's based on a true story -- sort of. I'm too lazy to do any research to tell you what that really means. But that hardly matters -- in fact there isn't much that really matters in this movie. It's all about Keira Knightley, playing the real life Domino Harvey, and kicking butt, giving attitude and not a damn about much else.

The movie is a cross between a music video and not-so-good-rips of ultraviolent movies such as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. On the surface, it had the potential. It certainly had attitude. It also had Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Christopher Walken, and a small role by Lucy Liu. Unfortunately, there was Tony Scott -- the director. He didn't realize the potential of the story, and shot the entire movie stylized as a music video. It was like a movie for people who suffer from ADD. Everything was blam! -- in your face. It was so stylized, it distracted from the movie -- stopping if from being a great movie, and making it so-so.

My recommendation: catch it on DVD, on the small screen, so you don't get a headache.