I don't understand why this movie has received so many negative reviews. This reminded me very much of his earlier thrillers, and in my view it was a good action movie.

I found the cinematography great, the acting passable and the action sequences suspenseful. For example, the chase sequence on the roof was clearly a homage to Hitchcock (a feature found in many of De Palma's movies),and the scene in which the viewer is suddenly made aware of the protagonist's gun being left even though it had been literally in the center of the screen for a while was quite clever. The female terrorist attack sequence was surely inspired by actual attacks in which terrorists filmed themselves in real time, and as such novel to me.

I found the pacing decent, the plot easy to follow and the international set added to the interest for me. The final action sequence, the beginning of which was signaled by a "Bolero" clone was signature De Palma: Slow motion, multiple happenings, all really drawing this viewer in.

My main criticism would be that I did not find the plot very realistic, but then, with this kind of movie it is kind of expected to suspend disbelief.

This was a pretty recognizable De Palma film which entertained me for its entire duration. I would recommend it to fans of the action thriller genre.

The film exhibits a held back tone throughout. Yet parts become excruciatingly tense. It could do with a grittier sound mix. However it could be pitched like this as an experiment, as an exploration into chilled new-age crime thrillers.

A worthy watch with some well sketched characters. Oh yes, and watch out for the mentally ill folk who believe they are doing what they do 'In the name of God'.

Saw 'Domino' for two main reasons. One was that it was directed by Brian De Palma, responsible for great films such as 'The Untouchables', 'Carlito's Way' and 'Carrie' (am less keen actually on 'Scarface' but still hardly consider that a lesser effort). The other being that it starred Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, so great in 'Game of Thrones' as one of that show's most interesting characters, one of my favourite shows apart from the understandably controversial final season and the slap in the face that was the last episode.

Neither however are served particularly well. In fact almost nothing comes off well in something of a complete mess of a film, that left me feeling disbelief that it actually was directed by De Palma. Of what has been seen of his, enough to judge, 'Domino' is to me easily his worst, one of the rare films of his that hardly anything good can be said about it in my view. Am not saying that with any malice intended, but 'Domino' is just a failure on every level.

Excepting a broodingly committed performance by Coster-Waldau. Carice Van Houten also doesn't do too bad a job, though she has been better.

The other actors are another story, most looking unsure of what to do with their characters or looking indifferent. Guy Pearce for example has never been this bad, even in the mediocre 'The Time Machine' remake. None of the characters are interesting or worth rooting for, was actually annoyed by their lack of personality, the decisions they made and how they behaved and spent the whole duration of the film thinking that. One can be easily forgiven for thinking another director directed 'Domino', De Palma's trademark style that most love and others not so much nowhere really in sight.

'Domino' is severely lacking in any kind of thrills or suspense, let alone a story that is remotely compelling (the pace is very pedestrian) or cohesive. The more action-oriented parts are routine at best and nothing out of the ordinary. Did find myself getting a headache from some of the photography, especially in the nausea-inducing first half hour or so, and even the nice scenery is wasted. The script is flabby and the flow is stilted throughout and lets not begin on mentioning that far too constant and truly over-bearing music score that sounded 20 plus years out of date on top of that.

Overall, very bad. 2/10