Julian RuncanDomino: They All Fall Down
August 10th 2010 15:46
Domino is an interesting film. It certainly isn't a good one, and I'm not sure how an entire film shot like a terrible music video managed to be boring, but at least Keira Knightley's character was pretty cool... most of the time. She was tough and all, but by the end of everything I had absolutely no idea why they chose to make a movie about this girl. The times she did anything interesting were parts that were fabricated to give her story some weight, so why base anything on her at all?
Don't get me wrong, I still think they did a good job of portraying her as a badass, but it never felt like anything worthwhile happened. I kept hoping that the movie was going to build to something I would be invested it, but the entire narrative was told rather than shown, with a wholly unfulfilling end. I could forgive the absence of a good story if the action was good or something, but no aspect of the movie managed to win me over.
The visual style was interesting, but felt annoying and douchy pretty early on. Everything was all over the place, and the entire experience felt like a crack-head was telling random stories about someone he knew for a couple hours. The movie jumped over any details I was becoming interested in, and kept leaving me questioning the character's thought process as much of their motivations seemed without logic.
While I appreciated that Domino tried to be more than a typical action movie, the style couldn't distract me enough to forget how boring the plot was. Scott's other movies may be more superficial, but at least they're still mostly entertaining. This one just feels like a failed experiment.
4.0/10
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