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Avg. Critic Score: 36 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's fractured and maddening, but it's alive. Read full review

  • 63
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    The movie is full of possibilities. Frustratingly, only a few of them are realized. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Thanks to dynamic performances by Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez and a strong cast -- sometimes all but buried beneath irksome stylistic flourishes -- this dark and absurd melodrama certainly has raw energy. Read full review

  • 38
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Domino is less a movie than a hyperkinetic slide show - presented during a nuclear attack. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    You can't accuse this film of bogging down in cheap psychology, yet you come out dissatisfied and without a clue about what made this person tick. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    The movie is quite off its rocker: Jerry Springer, Chrisopher Walken, Tom Waits as a roadside prophet, a miscast, nervous Lucy Liu as an FBI agent -- it's a feverish, violent jumble that's shot as if high on mescaline -- the drug, not the salad. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Walter Addiego

    Two hours of senselessness and overkill, decked out in lurid, bad-trip colors. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    His [Director Tony Scott's] pornographic lust for bloodletting, gunplay, and out-of-control camerawork far exceeds his abilities to tell a story. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The movie is trash shot to look like art imitating trash. Read full review

  • 0
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Domino is a new definition of a snuff movie. It snuffs out every vestige of feeling. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Lurid biography that's way too violent for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie isn't for kids. Violent in content and form, it features murders by a variety of means (shootings, explosions, knifings, bare-hands and martial-artsy assaults). Its look is grainy and harsh, and its editing is very fast and aggressive, matching the storyline. Characters drink, do hallucinogenic drugs (resulting in a scene in van and then, after it crashes, in a desert), and smoke, lots. The film features a lap dance by Domino, and shots of her bottom "crack" under low-rise jeans, ogled by tattooed bounty hunters at a meeting.
  • 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?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Bounty hunters, thieves, murderers and robbers serve as poor role models.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Brutal and bloody, heavily stylized (body parts, murders, and vehicular violence).
  • sex false3 Sexy stuff: Brief lap dance rendered in saturated colors and fast cuts, a hallucinatory sexual liaison in the desert, skimpy clothing throughout.
  • language false5 Language: Pervasive rough, tough guy language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: .
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Excessive drugs, cigarettes, liquor.
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