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I am what I am and what I am needs no excuses..............
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Ok so the trailers for this film were really quite annoying. I had Keira Knightley's (Domino) voice reverberating around my head for days - 'My name is Domino Harvey and I am a bounty hunter'. This was enough to put me off the film. That was until I read an article about the real Domino Harvey and realised that if the film was anything like her actual life it may be worth a look.
Domino Harvey was (according to the film) a rich girl gone bad. Her father was an actor before he died and her mum was a model, more interested in her social life than paying much attention to Domino. The girl got into a fair bit of trouble at boarding school due to her violent tendencies and her mum eventually moved her from the UK to Hollywood. Domino cut her hair off, developed a bit of a bad attitude and decided she wanted to be a Bounty Hunter. Obviously I've already mentioned her violent tendencies so add this to her skills with various weapons and she may have found the perfect job.
Enter Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke), the bounty hunter / con man with a heart. He and his sidekick Choco (Edgar Ramirez) have a reputation for getting the job done. Domino has to prove herself to become part of the team. That's where it starts. It's basically a heist story with a lot of back stabbing and double- bluffing. The mob, FBI and a TV production crew all have a part to play in the plot. Christopher Walken is, as usual, great as the TV producer Mark Heiss and Mena Suvari does a pretty good job as his assistant too.
To be honest, I found that Moseby and Choco were far more endearing than Domino herself. Ramirez played the slightly unstable, lovelorn Choco extremely well and Mickey Rourke (who I have swiftly become a huge fan of since Sin City and Spun) is completely believable as the tough guy with a caring side Moseby.
Lucy Liu, Macy Gray and Jacqueline Bisset all appear fairly briefly but all do a pretty good job (although Macy Gray's character was pretty annoying). The most surprising part of the film was Brian Green and Ian Ziering, from Beverly Hills 90210 fame, playing themselves. They added some much needed humour and managed to laugh at themselves in a way that made me respect them a little more.
The action was pretty good, explosions, car chases, shoot outs etc. All pretty well produced but nothing particularly amazing. The special effects were quite impressive too, particularly when a poor gut gets his arm cut off for a safe combination.
My major let down of the film was that all the way though I was wondering which bits were real and which were fiction. If this film had been completely made up then it would have still been ok but anyone who knows a bit about the real Domino Harvey knows that her life wasn't quite as glamorous as it's portrayed in the film. Domino had serious issues with heroin and cocaine and actually died before the film was released. In all of the photos I have seen of her she looks nothing like the well made-up Keira Knightley does in this film. As entertaining as the film is it really doesn't show the troubled life Domino really had which is a shame.
All in all it's pretty entertaining but if you have read about Domino's story before you may struggle with the fact v fiction aspect as I did. Not particularly clever but good fun all the same.
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Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
good review, i have seen this lying on the sheleves at the local dvd shop and always wondered what it was about and if it was worth renting, you have made my decision...... "wait until its on SKY movies",
cheers : )
Playgirl27 08.01.2006 15:55
Not my sort of thing but a good review, lou xx
salem_witch 31.12.2005 23:49
I didn't fancy this from the trailers. I won't b erushing to see this at all!
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Oct 22nd, 2005
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