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Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) "Kill them all" has become the official catchphrase of hacky thrillers. Hacky thriller specialist Tony Scott ( "Spy Game," "The Fan") crammed that line into two movies in a row: last year's "Man on Fire" and the new "Domino." Both also feature stories that make no sense; jangly, overcaffeinated camerawork; grainy neon colors; and redundant subtitles that pop up all over the screen like captions for the cinematically impaired. 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. The weird thing is that there is a compelling movie in the true story of Domino Harvey, the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey ("The Manchurian Candidate") who was a supermodel, a junkie, a bounty hunter and a bisexual. But "Domino" ignores the offbeat stuff to focus on the dullest stuff: standard action-movie scenes of her shooting up rooms and driving her car through photogenic puddles (which is especially dumb since she's driving in the desert at the time). For whatever reason, there are also about 20 close-ups of a bewildered goldfish. Basically, she's an angrier "Charlie's Angel" in a movie made for people who are into either a) jazzy-looking violence or b) carp. 1 star Directed by: Tony Scott Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke Rated: R, for very strong language and violence, topless scenes and drug use
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