Domino
New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 14, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
15
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
USA TodayMike Clark
You can't accuse this film of bogging down in cheap psychology, yet you come out dissatisfied and without a clue about what made this person tick. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The truly appalling thing, though, is the stupidity of the screenplay by Richard Kelly. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Domino is less a movie than a hyperkinetic slide show - presented during a nuclear attack. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
Scott means for his entertainment package to be hip, hysterical fun. But his stylistic embellishments and indiscriminate appetite for sensation crowds his title character right out of the film. Read full review
38
PremierePeter Debruge
I suspect Scott sees Domino as the ultimate provocation, his way of grabbing Hollywood by the throat and shouting, "You want reality??! I'll give you REALITY!!!" Sort of. Read full review
37
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
The movie is quite off its rocker: Jerry Springer, Chrisopher Walken, Tom Waits as a roadside prophet, a miscast, nervous Lucy Liu as an FBI agent -- it's a feverish, violent jumble that's shot as if high on mescaline -- the drug, not the salad. Read full review
30
Village VoiceJessica Winter
The script, allegedly by "Donnie Darko's" Richard Kelly, throws together tangentially related plots like cats in a sack. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Domino de-emphasizes the human element--not to mention such niceties as plot and clarity--to such a degree that only those who show up purely to watch combustibles go "boom" won't feel insulted. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie is trash shot to look like art imitating trash. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
His [Director Tony Scott's] pornographic lust for bloodletting, gunplay, and out-of-control camerawork far exceeds his abilities to tell a story. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
In small doses, this looks kind of cool. For two hours, it's excruciating. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
Two hours of senselessness and overkill, decked out in lurid, bad-trip colors. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Domino is a new definition of a snuff movie. It snuffs out every vestige of feeling.
0
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Staggeringly awful. Read full review
0
SlateDavid Edelstein
Domino seemed to me the end of the world for movies--a glimpse of a future so excruciating that I'd prefer to take my chances with Hitchcock's eye-gouging avians. Read full review
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