Domino
Once upon a time, Tony Scott took a script by a then-unknown auteur named Quentin Tarantino and gave us the hyperkinetic, color-drenched True Romance. While it never got the raves of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill, it was, in its own way, a great film.
Fast forward more than a decade, and Scott reaches for that same bottle that once contained the lightning and tries to drink from it a second time. This time around, he has once again assembled a who’s who of actors (including Christopher Walken, who had a memorable scene in True Romance facing down some very unhappy mobsters), cranks up the color and hyper-kinetic style and … doesn’t quite end up with a great film.
Domino
A fun film.
But not a great film.
The problem is the script. While Tarantino’s scripts appear to careen wildly back and forth, they actually have a great deal of structure and he’s a disciplined writer who knows where he’s going and only includes what’s needed to get there, even if he enjoys faking the audience out about the final destination.
Domino, instead, ultimately becomes fairly flabby and overly long and it suffers the one fatal flaw such a film should never have: There are moments where it’s simply boring.
Having said that, it’s a film worth seeing. The all-star cast (including career-redeeming turns by two former 90210 stars), the music and the cinematography almost make up for what the script lacks.
Recommended for fans of Keira Knightley, the amazing Delroy Lindo, Tony Scott or, heck, even Quentin Tarantino.
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