

What’s most impressive about Domino: Battle of the Bones is the chemistry between Beatty Jr. “ With the World Domino Championship…coming to town, Gerald and the locals will have the opportunity to prove their worth…”

The directors deliver in this regard and ultimately save the film that began so strong but halfway through began teetering on its last legs. While humor, even if it had survived from beginning to end, helps to entertain, being able to make an emotional connection is what keeps audiences engaged throughout any given story. come in hot and attract viewers early on, but by the second act the comedy subsides and the allure of the film vanished along with it.Īs the film appears to lose its balance, real, gritty emotion swoops in at the last minute to restabilize everything. Co-directors Baron Davis, Carl Reid, and Steven V.

While the idea of these things may irritate the masses, the delivery of each joke is perfect at least throughout the first half. The Black Lives Matter movement is made fun of, women are told that they cannot compete with men, and gentrification is meant to seem like a good thing. The screenplay by Pamela Azmi-Andrew, Baron Davis, and Carl Reid rips apart race, mental illness, and sexuality at the seams and flips them on their heads, meaning that the film is not meant for everyone. Throughout the absurdity that is Domino: Battle of the Bones nothing is off-limits. But he is stuck looking after his new step-grandchild, Andy (Nathan Dana) little does Gerald know that Andy has a few domino-related tricks up his sleeve. With the World Domino Championship, led by Walter (David Arquette), coming to town, Gerald and the locals will have the opportunity to prove their worth in a nearly 2000-year-old game. However, in Compton, Gerald (Lou Beatty Jr.) has practiced the game for years and helped keep it alive. but has struggled to make waves in modern societies as it had in the past. The game of Dominoes has been around since the second century A.D.
