Heads You Win, Tails You Die
- Title: Domino
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What an entertaining ride. Although rather messy and with more than a couple of flaws, Domino delivers one of the most enjoyable and watchable films this year. Comparison to Tarantino’s Kill Bill are probably inevitable, but this is a far superior film with actual heart. And damn, is it fun!!
Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) is a glamour girl with a thirst for violence turned bounty hunter. As the film opens Domino is in custody telling FBI Agent Taryn Miles (Lucy Liu) discussing what went wrong and landed her handcuffed in the interrogation room. Something horrible happened on the last bounty and the movie is a series of flashbacks inter-cut with Knightley telling her story and finding her own understanding of what happened out in the desert.
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