There is a fascinating story in the life of Domino Harvey that would make a great movie. There was a desire to be dominant and a need for everyone to realize that she was strong, a true Leo. She seemed to be spending so much time "having fun", that she lost sight of herself, destroyed herself. She became what she was running away from. Ironically, Tony Scott spends so much time trying to shock us with lap dances and severed arms that we never get to know her, which probably would have suited Domino just fine. Scott tells you at the beginning that this is a true story, sort of, and Domino states that she just wants to have fun. The movie gets lost between those two needs, telling the truth and having fun, two things that rarely go hand in hand. To me the most telling part is one of the details. When the Hollywood suit wants to make a star out of Domino, they want to move Ed, the guy who has done this for a living, out of the center of the poster to put Domino there. They refuse, because it's just not true. But, look at the main page for the movie Domino and who is in the center. Like almost all of Tony Scott's work, having fun is way more important than telling the truth. Sadly, it ain't even that fun. Domino plays like some strange melding of Natural Born Killers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Usual Suspects and all the fancy camera tricks in the world won't make that exciting.
Review of Domino
