Domino (R)
Lurid biography that's way too violent for kids.
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- Studio: New Line Home Entertainment, New Line Home Entertainment
- Directed By: Tony Scott
- Cast: Mickey Rourke, Keira Knightley
- Running Time: 120 minutes
- Release Date: 10/14/2005
- Video/DVD Release Date: 02/21/2006
- Genre: Drama
- MPAA Rating: R
- MPAA Explanation: strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content/nudity and drug use
Parents need to know
Families can talk about the familial relationships that develop in the film. As Domino rejects her fashion model mother (and continues to mourn the death of her father), she finds a second supportive unit in the bounty hunters. How does the movie suggest that Domino, for all the difficulties of her life as a bounty hunter, finds a perverse peace and sense of understanding among these rough types? How does the movie use the framing device -- the interview with the FBI agent -- to provide Domino's point of view? Is this an effective device, given the harrowing chaos of the story she tells?
Message
Social Behavior:
Bounty hunters, thieves, murderers and robbers serve as poor role models.
Consumerism:
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Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Excessive drugs, cigarettes, liquor.
Violence
Brutal and bloody, heavily stylized (body parts, murders, and vehicular violence).
Sex
Brief lap dance rendered in saturated colors and fast cuts, a hallucinatory sexual liaison in the desert, skimpy clothing throughout.
Language
Pervasive rough, tough guy language.
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Cynthia Fuchs
Is it any good?
When she appears at the very end of Tony Scott's raucous film, her shaved head, pale complexion, and large eyes hardly match the movie's version of Domino, perfectly coiffed, extravagantly made-up, and gorgeous, in the person of Keira Knightley. Even as it grants the film an unearned weight, this last portrait, brief and haunting, also underlines the movie's point: show biz kills.
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