..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..R.J. Matson
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Michael Wilmington

Domino

Directed by Ridley Scott
New Line Cinema

Determined to prove she's not just another pretty set of hipbones, Keira Knightley is game and glittering at the center of Tony Scott's Domino, (** ½) where the brother of Sir Ridley is again out to prove he's Papi Pendejo but also at least the Baron of ADD or Duke of Asperger's. This vastly enjoyable but painfully hyper entertainment is a mescaline-esque maelstrom, co-written by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly, shotgunned by a Goodfellas-style voiceover is a turbocharged life story of Domino Harvey (whom Scott knew for fifteen years), daughter of the actor Laurence Harvey (star of The Manchurian Candidate), a rebellious Ford model turned bounty hunter whose exploits are eventually tracked, in this telling, by a WB reality show hosted by a couple of Beverly Hills 90210 burnouts. The real Domino died shortly after the film was finished; Scott is also oddly reticent to display Harvey's reported drug use and bisexuality, focusing more on ways to light the feathering peach-fuzz along Knightley's spare jaw line. Feral, cutting shadow and smoke with cheekbones and emphatic lip gloss but also butt crack and lilac lacies, the sometimes-naked (or neatly-doubled) Knightley is not tomboyish so much as she is very skinny as she wreaks chopsocky, choppy-and-overlapping edited havoc through a 1990s LA that seems a suburb of México City. It's not girlie aggro, it's gonzo malice and the actress is up to whatever Scott flings her way. Or, in one memorable line, "Domino, give those goddam nunchucks a rest already." The end credits begin with something precious as each of the actors are recalled, but the last two shots blur reality and invention in a startlingly explosive fashion. With Mickey Rourke and Edgar Ramirez as Domino's crew, Lucy Liu as her interrogator, Christopher Walken, Mena Suvari and Jacqueline Bisset. Tom Waits also stumbles in out of the desert as an unlikely Kurtzian seer.

- Ray Pride