Domino (2005)

Directed by Tony Scott from a script by Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly, 'Domino' is a strange hybrid of a film depicting real life model turned bounty hunter and Tony Scott friend Domino Harvey in a fictional caper story spanning LA to Vegas. It jumps around a lot and has a rather stylized flavor as you would expect form Kelly, and also as you would expect from Kelly it is just jam packed with stuff, too much stuff, so much stuff that I couldn't entirely follow the plot. 

Harvey, the daughter of the South African born actor Laurence Harvey and the English model Paulene Stone, was a troubled figure, which would seem self evident of a child of privilege who would give up the cat walk for hunting bail jumpers. She would in fact pass away from a Fentanyl overdose in June of 05', the movie wouldn't be released until October of that year. 

The film would flop making about $23.5 million of a $50 budget. The movies Domino is played by a 19 year old Keira Knightly, and the nicely cast picture would include Mickey Rourke, Delroy Lindo, Dabney Coleman, Lucy Liu, Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Walken, Mena Suvari, and Tom Waits. Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering, and Jerry Springer appear as themselves. 

A mess, but not an unwatchable one, a colleague of stuff that eventually settles into a nice rhythm but goes on too long and lacks much invest-ability in its characters. Director Scott himself thought the corp of the thing was fine but that he'd messed up the execution, I could agree with that.**