Set in Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Sardinia, director Brian De Palma’s violent counterterrorism thriller revolves around a Copenhagen cop tracking a killer who is tied to ISIS. When Christian (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) reports to work, he accidentally leaves his service pistol behind in his apartment. And because he’s unarmed, Christian’s partner/pal Lars (Søren Malling) winds up getting killed, and Christian is suspended from the police force. Nevertheless, he is determined to capture Ezra Tarzi (Eriq Ebouaney), a Libyan immigrant who fled a crime scene, leaving behind the corpse of a collaborator—a grocer who connected jihadists and weapons dealers. What Christian and fellow detective Alex (Carice van Houten), who was having an affair with Lars, don’t realize is that Tarzi’s children are being held hostage by the ISIS leader—and Tarzi is being protected by duplicitous American CIA agent Joe Martin (Guy Pearce), who is really after a sheikh released from Guantanamo. Sketchily scripted by Petter Skavlan, this stilted, nonsensical cat-and-mouse tale bears little resemblance to De Palma’s previous works (the filmmaker essentially disowns this film, which he says was “underfunded”). Dull and disappointing, this is not recommended. (S. Granger)
Domino
Lionsgate, 89 min., R, DVD: $19.99, Blu-ray: $21.99, July 30 Volume 34, Issue 5
Domino
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