‘Domino’ is the Perfect Guy Movie

By Charly Shelton, Special to the Valley Sun

Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) was a bounty hunter.

Not like Boba Fett, a real bounty hunter who was on a team with the other two most famous bounty hunters in Los Angeles, Choco (Edgar Ramirez) and Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke), along with their driver, Alf (Rizwan Abbasi). This is Domino’s true story ... sort of.

Born as the daughter of actor and matinee idol Lawrence Harvey and model Sophie Wynn, Domino always had whatever she wanted, but she never liked high society. Her father died when she was 8, at which point her mother sent her to boarding school in an attempt to calm Domino’s wild side. Years later, the boarding school still didn’t work, and after a brief time in modeling and college, she found a job seminar to train bounty hunters. This attracted her interest and so begins her journey.

Domino and her team become the most famous (and infamous) bounty hunters in LA. And when approached by Mark Heiss (Christopher Walken) to do a TV show called “Bounty Squad,” they accept.

Little do the cast or crew know how big their next case was going to be.

Thanks to their bail bondsman boss, the Bounty Squad find themselves involved with $10 million in mob money and FBI investigations into not only the mob, but themselves.

Their only option: to blast their way out.

Tony Scott directed this, and he is the only thing wrong with this movie.

The camera shots are so shaky all the time that one would be lucky to see anything except blur for most of the movie.

Other than that, it was very well done.

The story is told in flashbacks, but it is very creative in how the flashbacks are arranged.

Rourke is perfect in this film as the friend and father figure to Domino, and Knightley is great as well.

She can play the tough solitary Domino but also retain a ladylike demeanor.

And there are explosions, lots of bad language, guns and lap dances: this is a great guy movie, but women will enjoy it just as much. But this is not a movie for children.

Rating ****1/2 out of 5

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Sharly Shelton is a junior at Crescenta Valley High School.