Herald rating: *
Inspired by Domino Harvey - daughter of movie star Laurence Harvey and fashion model Paulene Stone - who became a bounty hunter, that peculiar offspring of the American justice system, an agent paid to track down and deliver human beings to the lawful authorities.
Domino (Keira Knightley) sees
an ad for a bounty-hunting course run by Claremont Williams (Delroy Lindo) and his top men, Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke) and Choco (Edgar Ramirez), a hard man from El Salvador. The team includes Alf (Rizwan Abbasi), an Afghan who blows things up. Like a Vegas casino.
In this helter-skelter world - and moviemaking style - Mark Heiss (Christopher Walken), a TV producer, hires the team for a reality show with celebrity hostages. Claremont's lover, Lateesha (Mo'Nique), has a job at the Department of Motor Vehicles which gives them access to databases that a bounty hunter can only dream of.
She has twin cousins, Lashandra (Macy Gray) and Lashindra (Shondrella Avery), who appear to have little to add to the plot, in so far as there is one, except to add a couple more celebrity cameos. There's also an FBI agent (Lucy Liu) and an episode in the desert involving coffee-spiked mescaline and a prophet (Tom Waits. Who else?).
It's all very confused, much as the character appears to have been, until her death from an overdose at the age of 37.
The real Domino tells her story in the 20-minute feature I Am A Bounty Hunter. Her mother admits she never really knew what was going on in her daughter's life. There are contributions from the real-life Choco, screenwriter Richard Kelly and director Tony Scott, a friend of Domino's, who says he tried to talk her out of the bounty-hunting business. Bounty Hunting On Acid offers the director his opportunity to explain his idiosyncratic moviemaking style. There are seven deleted scenes, a couple of rambling commentaries.
* DVD, Video rental 17 May
