Peter Bradshaw on Domino (and other stuff)
I like Peter Bradshaw because he’s not stuck up his own wazoo, and judges each film as it’s intended to be judged. He may admire Ingmar Bergman’s Saraband, but that doesn’t stop him giving Kill Bill 2 top marks.
On the other hand, he’s still prepared to denounce a film as a dud. Today he reviews Tony Scott’s new film, Domino. He takes issue with Keira Knightley’s accent, that she is unconvincing in the role, that the film dodges the serious issue of her real life drug problem, its questionable dedication to her memory, and so on. And then, in the middle of this, he says:
I can only say that Tony Scott here missed a massive opportunity for comedy. Would it have killed him to include a scene where she trips over and bumps into someone, causing them to topple over, hitting someone else, and they topple over, and so on?
I laughed out loud.
