Domino

Good story a little loose in places. The acting all around was pretty good but Tony Scott's directing style nearly killed it. He needs to learn how to edit stuff tighter. And if there was one more shot of those gold fish in that bowl I may have thrown something at the screen. It didn't drag as badly has some of his other work but useless shots really kill the overall flow. Since it was in the previews I can put it here without doing it in the red spoiler area. While the part with Mo'Nique on The Jerry Springer Show was fun and a good laugh it was pointless to the overall story and another one of those things that if left on the floor could have helped the pacing of the film.


Now a few things that could be seen by some as spoilers so skip the red typing if you don't want anything ruined for you.


Kiera Knightly freaking rocked in this kickass role. I swear even if this movie had turned into a complete disaster it would have been worth it for the part when she broke Brian Austin Green's nose. How many of us would love to do that? And seriously how funny was it when he was telling her how her bad girl act couldn't fool him because he's an actor. He may be an actor but we all know he's a bad one.

The scene when they crash in the desert another example of Tony's bad editing. I am not one of those people who gets down on every sex scene in every movie for being pointless or gratuitous but come on this one was a bit ridiculous. Much better if the bus crashes and then the next morning they manage to flag down a passing motorist.

Also don't need the backstory on their driver/explosives guy. That was just pointless on all levels. It only serviced an ending that didn't need to be serviced by that much screen time.


Paid full price and do good acting and a decent story designed for no other purpose than a couple hours of fun in mind it was worth it. Luckily also the actors understood it was just a fun crazy movie and didn't take it or themselves too seriously. That would have killed the whole thing.