Domino
Directed by Tony Scott
- action
- drama
- crime
- thriller
The story
The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
What it’s like
Hyper-saturated and restless, with grainy bleached-out flashbacks cut against glossy high-contrast digital frames, the look of Tony Scott's late style: rapid zooms, jump cuts, skewed handheld angles, and scenes lit in sickly greens, electric blues and blown-out whites that make Los Angeles feel like a neon fever dream. Sound is loud and jagged, a pounding rock and electronic soundtrack laid over stuttering dialogue and sudden silences. The vibe is brash, sun-scorched and knowingly stylish, best for a late-night watch when you want kinetic energy rather than calm. It moves fast and jumps around in time, with a headstrong woman who swings between reckless bravado and fragile vulnerability as she gets pulled into a world of bail jumpers, cops and strip-club grit. Violence is frequent and sharp, with shootouts, fistfights and bloodied bodies, plus strong language, drug use and sexual content in the club scenes. It lands as hard and abrasive rather than gory. Recommended for viewers who like adrenaline-heavy crime stories with a rebellious, self-mythologising heroine.
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