Domino is very loosely based on the life of Domino Harvey. She was the daughter of British actor Laurence Harvey, who is best remembered as the original Manchurian Candidate. After her father's death, she and her mother moved to Beverly Hills. For a minute, she dabbled in modeling before taking up her career as a bounty hunter. The real Domino Harvey was a lesbian who battled drug addiction. It was her habit that led to an overdose earlier this year. She was found dead in her West Hollywood apartment. While Harvey did have some say in the movie, she was also displeased with certain facets of her portrayal (particularly the choice to play her as a heterosexual).

Domino the movie is inspired more by the idea of Domino - a rich hot chick who decides to be a bounty hunter and hang out with criminals and ex-cons - than by Domino herself. Director Tony Scott takes the concept of Domino and creates what amounts to a lot more fiction than fact.

In the movie, Domino (Kiera Knightley) is being interrogated by FBI criminal psychologist (Lucy Liu). She tells the story of a bounty hunt/double-cross that went horribly wrong. Convoluted and taxing, all I will say is that it involves several DMV workers (including a scene-stealing Mo'Nique as well as Macy Gray), a mobster (Stanley Kamel) and his frat boy sons, Afghanistan freedom fighters,  a sick kid, the FBI and a sleazy reality show producer (Christopher Walken) and his 'celebrity hosts/hostages' played by Beverly Hills 90210 actors Brian Austin Green and Ian Zierling.  Along the way, Domino also fills us in on the details of her life - how she met her partners Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke) and Choco (Edgar Ramirez).

Tony Scott is going for a sort of surreal, trippy energy with Domino. He uses lots of colored tints, jump cuts and shaky camera work to convey that feeling. After an hour and a half it was more distracting than anything. The script (by Richard Kelly) goes for that same sort of jerky, surreal, trippy effect. Things happen but then they really didn't happen. Or did they?

Domino is violent. Tons of shoot-outs, explosions, gun-play and a well-placed severed arm. And I swear every song in the score used the F-word repeatedly. Despite all of that, halfway through, I was bored. The movie's best scene is also it's most useless. Mo'Nique as Lateesha Rodriquez goes on Jerry Springer to advocate her new racial classification system featuring Blactinos (black/latino), Chinegros (Chinese and black) and Japanics (Japanese and Hispanic).

Domino is a classic case of lots of style and little substance. If you stay through part of the credits, you'll get a look at the real Domino Harvey. I get the feeling that her real-life story would have been a whole lot more interesting than this fictional account.