Domino

Domino (2019)

Murder Can Lead to Deadlier Crimes

Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.

Date of release
2019-05-31
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (308)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
Brian De Palma

Casting

Interesting facts

Domino is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten, Guy Pearce and Eriq Ebouaney. It is an international co-production filmed on-location across Europe. It tells the story of Danish police officer Christian Toft (Coster-Waldau), who is seeking justice for the murder of his partner Lars Hansen by the vengeful Ezra Tarzi (Ebouaney), hampered by his target being a CIA informant.

Production

In 2017, Brian De Palma began to shoot Domino in Málaga, and continued in Almería at the airport, the bullring and the port. Walk-on extras were selected at the Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos. Shooting in the Almería bullring was cut short due to problems with the number of extras required. Christina Hendricks was replaced by Carice van Houten in the lead female role Alex Roe.

Despite De Palma denying rumors that the final cut, clocking in at 89 minutes, was shortened against his wishes (an erroneous original running time of 148 minutes had been cited by reviewers), he declared: "I was not involved in the ADR, the musical recording sessions, the final mix or the color timing of the final print." In an interview with theplaylist.net he precised: "Domino is not my project, I did not write the script [...].

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