Domino (2005)
Directed by Tony Scott
The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
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What critics compared Domino to
A convoluted soundscape of tracks and effects, shots that last for nano seconds, freeze frames, bursts of rainbow-coloured flushes and filters and sticker boxes flung onto the screen like McDonald’s pickles hurled at glass windows evoke the frantic feeling of latter era Tony Scott (ala Man on Fire, Domino, Enemy of the State) but cranked up a notch.
The comparison that was dead clear to me during the movie was the late, great Tony Scott’s Domino.
For filmgoers who can remember as far back as 2005, “Savages” could be described as the movie “ Domino ” tried so frenetically to be.
With plot developments that barely make sense, eye-popping visuals that feel as if they were edited together by someone who was coked up, an overqualified cast (John Travolta is also in it) and jittery characterizations, “Savages” feels like Oliver Stone trying to make a Tony Scott (“Domino,” “Man on Fire”) movie.
In that film, the outlandish premise (in which a cop, Denzel Washington, can go back to a certain place in time and is advised by scientists as to his goals based on footage lifted from camera all over the city of New Orleans) required so much exposition that it put a lid on Scott’s normal visual overload in films like Domino and Man on Fire.
It's like "True Romance" crossed with "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" remade with the artistic vision of "Domino."
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Creative cinematography that is similar to the style of Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Domino).
From a technical perspective, try to imagine a Tony Scott film, like Domino for instance, with all its distracting tics and affectations.
After the rampant excess of Domino - Tony Scott's all-but-unwatchable 2005 actioner - the filmmaker has thankfully done away with most of his over-the-top stylistic tendencies and instead infused Deja Vu with a comparatively toned-down vibe that's reminiscent of past efforts such as Enemy of the State and Crimson Tide.
As dedicated readers may recall, Director Tony Scott’s Domino garnered the number one spot on my Worst list of 2005.
After the seizure-inducing circuses that were “Man on Fire” and (especially) last year’s “Domino,” it is a properly subdued Tony Scott who has made “Deja Vu.” Gone are the jittery editing and the preposterous plotting.
Director Tony Scott, whose last film Domino assaulted the senses with its jumping-bean pyrotechnics, tones it down here.
Big question: Can director Tony Scott ("Domino," "Enemy of the State") keep his jittery style in check and have "Deja Vu" make at least a little bit of sense?
And the movie also benefits from direction by Tony Scott that concentrates on clean storytelling for a change, and shows none of the stylistic excesses that marred his 2004 collaboration with Washington, "Man on Fire," and helped make last year's "Domino" a travesty.