Dog, Bounty Hunter, you are nothing to me.
Category: Movies
Recommender: Craig
Movie: Domino
Director: Tony Scott
Copyright: 2005
Caught Me by Surprise Factor: Medium-Well
Craig is my little brother. You can tell just by looking at the two of us that we are related. However, that is where most of our similarities end. He is detail-oriented, a natural with all things mechanical, and flies planes. I am big-picture, prefer someone else fix everything, and have touched the controls of an aircraft once while in the air and almost shit my pants with fear. All our differences aside, we both love action, adventure, espionage, and suspense movies. He tends more towards explosions and car chases while I prefer the mind-bender flicks, but it is the one type of movie that we can pick out and agree upon.
Craig’s recommendation to me was a movie I’d never heard of. Domino stars Keira Knightley as the title character with Mickey Rourke with Edgar Ramirez (who is pretty) as her sidekicks (of a sort). It is the mostly-to-partially true story of Domino Harvey. Domino left a decent modeling career to become a badass. After whatever nonsense happens in her career (who cares? let’s move the story on), she decides to take a course in how to become a bounty hunter (which is a scam) and instead ends up learning things on the job from Ed (Rourke) and Choco (Ramirez – who is pretty).
There are lots of nice little surprises in this film. Right off the bat, we get to watch Lucy Liu and Knightley in a battle of verbal abuse as Liu interrogates Knightley as an FBI psychologist. Why is Domino being interrogated? Because some recent job the bounty hunting trio has attempted has gone horribly wrong and she’s been busted. Why a psychologist? I really don’t know, but we get to watch Lucy Liu, so does it matter?
Also, along the way the bounty hunters get picked up to do a reality tv series, mostly featuring the petite but vicious Domino. The pleasant surprise comes when Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering of 90210 fame, playing themselves, come to host the show. What’s great is that it’s clear they want cameos similar to that of Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar – something so over-the-top and absurd that people would never believe they are actually like that in real life. However, they portray themselves as just as ridiculous as they probably are. It’s great. Oh, and finally, Mo’Nique has a featured role in a quartet of divas from the DMV. I love them.
All in all, this was a fun movie to watch and was surprisingly entertaining. After this, I’ll be looking forward to Craig’s recommendations a little more often. It’s totally not something I would have watched otherwise, and it’s no award winner by any stretch, but I certainly enjoyed it. Except when they cut that guy’s arm off. That was gross.
