According to Metacritic, this movie has an average rating of 36% from critics and 4.5/10 from user comments. Rotten Tomatoes rates is as 18% fresh, with 9% from the 'cream of the crop'. So it looks like not many people liked it; it cost $50 million and grossed $20 million.
It’s very loosely based on the life story of Domino Harvey, the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, a Beverly Hills kid who grew up to be a model then abruptly became a bounty hunter working for a bail bondsman, and was successful enough to become Bounty Hunter of the Year 2003.
Keira Knightly stars. Mickey Rourke plays her boss. Lucy Liu, Delroy Lindo, Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Walken, Mena Suvari, Macy Gray, and Dabney Coleman also appear. Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering play themselves, and a certain gravely voiced singer makes a memorable cameo.
The director is Tony Scott, whose biggest commercial successes were Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop 2 and who had just finished Man On Fire (though to this day most of his work is in tv commercials). The sole scriptwriter was Richard Kelly, the writer/director of Donnie Darko.
Visually the movie is wildly out of control, looking like the bastard child of a three-way between Fight Club, Natural Born Killers, and Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas. The acting is uniformly superb. The script is dense and bizarre and shifts through time & space in an often baffling manner - flashbacks within flashbacks, and sometimes turning back the clock to change how a scene plays out. The sound design is unrelievedly loud - constant gunshots, shouting, screaming music.
Here are some review snippets.
"Domino is a horrid piece of junk."
"If it were a song, Domino would be a track from Poison remixed by a guy who is simultaneously snorting coke and jackhammering a sidewalk."
"Abusively moronic enough to inspire something like pity."
"Staggeringly awful."
"Domino is a new definition of a snuff movie. It snuffs out every vestige of feeling."
And, my favourite:
"Domino seemed to me the end of the world for movies... I was constitutionally incapable of staying with Domino for more than a few minutes before wincing and shutting my eyes to ward off the horror."
I loved it. Pass the popcorn.