Domino's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
"While the end result is certainly no masterpiece, it is still better than the average action potboiler and contains a couple of exhilarating set pieces that offer further proof - not that any is needed at this point - that De Palma remains one of the unquestioned masters of creating and executing moments of pure cinema"
Cinemanía
"De Palma still has a lot to say about the image (...) It covers the best sequences with neonoir expressiveness and telling things in the most cinematic way possible".
New York Times
"De Palma can?t realize all the elaborate effects he clearly wanted (the film?s climax occurs at a bullfight that?s conspicuously not crowded). But his direction often compensates with B-movie energy, particularly when he?s able to concentrate on his perverse vision".
Rolling Stone
"Just when you want to outright dismiss it, a pinprick of sound and vision peeks through the straight-to-DVD dross. And just when you start to think someone?s starting to gin up that old black magic, the whole thing simply topples over with a loud thud".
The Hollywood Reporter
"He (De Palma) has rarely been guilty of dullness, as he is with 'Domino', a counterterrorism thriller offering just slightly more excitement than the average TV police procedural".
Variety
"Even when we can tell what?s going on in 'Domino', there?s a sense of the tail of De Palma?s intentions wagging the dog of a plot".
Screen Daily
"Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but 'Domino' dishes it up as a sloppy mess of warmed-over clichés".
The A.V. Club
"'Domino' is, for large stretches, just ludicrous?and atypically boring. It?s a sad sight to see from a filmmaker who, once upon a time, excelled at drawing a viewer into the thrill of seeing a sequence come together, with all the pieces falling into place. In 'Domino', one finds only the pieces".
The New Yorker
"(...) the political intrigue is stale and stereotyped, the characters might as well be windup toys, and the gore is repulsive and gratuitous".