
Vulgar, brash and loud, Dom Hemingway has just been released from prison after serving twelve years for his crime as a safe-cracker working for Ivan Fontaine, who Dom's best friend and associate Dickie Black calls one of the most dangerous men in Europe. Dom left the employ of Lestor McGreevy, a man he generally disliked, to work for Fontaine. Dom could have easily plea bargained with the authorities to give up information on Fontaine for a reduced sentence, he not doing so w... (Full plot summary below)
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Vulgar, brash and loud, Dom Hemingway has just been released from prison after serving twelve years for his crime as a safe-cracker working for Ivan Fontaine, who Dom's best friend and associate Dickie Black calls one of the most dangerous men in Europe. Dom left the employ of Lestor McGreevy, a man he generally disliked, to work for Fontaine. Dom could have easily plea bargained with the authorities to give up information on Fontaine for a reduced sentence, he not doing so which resulted in he never again seeing his wife Katherine who died of cancer while he was in prison, and now being estranged from his young adult daughter Evie who sees his choice as his priority of Fontaine over her and her mother. For his silence and giving up twelve years of his life, Dom believes Fontaine owes him and owes him big, and with Dickie by his side, tries to track down Fontaine for that payment. Despite his encounter with a young new ageist woman named Melody, his actions which she vows will lead to luck shining down on him, Dom impatiently waits for good luck to come his way as one thing after another seems to go wrong, whether it be in dealing with Fontaine and by association his trophy Romanian girlfriend Paolina, in his attempt to reconcile with Evie, and/or in his attempt to find work specifically with McGreevy's son, Lestor Jr. who, as an apple, doesn't fall far from the tree.
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| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeI unreservedly love Richard Shepard's Dom Hemingway, and I strongly urge everyone with a taste for quirky, dark crime comedy of the British variety to beat a path to it. |
| FilmDrunkVincent ManciniIf you want a drinking game to play during Dom Hemingway, drink every time someone says "Dom Hemingway." Drink double every time Dom Hemingway says "Oy'm Dom 'emingwaiy!" You will be drunk. |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottA giddy blend of style and attitude that plays like a lightweight cross between a Guy Ritchie and Wes Anderson film. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeShepard balances a livelier-than-life script with striking, super-saturated images, which makes the film feel bigger than it is. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumChris BumbrayOne of the sleeper hits of TIFF 2013. Jude Law is fantastic. |
| CinemaBlendKristy PuchkoThis is a career-defining performance for Law, and it's bolstered by stellar supporting turns. |
| Movie MezzanineKristen SalesThe derivative nature of Dom Hemingway's mouthy, swaggering gangster archetype combines with the aimlessness of the script to create a character piece that goes nowhere, except everywhere we've already been. |
| Film School RejectsSam FragosoLike the rambling speech that opens Dom Hemingway, Richard Shepard's initially amusing, genre-less piece of filmmaking tragically expends its virtues thin by about the 30-minute mark. |
| Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyBetween Law's performance and Shepard's script, which brims with explicit and expressive dialogue, the movie is remarkable for its ability to exhaust, irritate and also entertain. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIf ever there were an actor ripe to ''McConaughnesize'' his career, it's Jude Law — and guess what, he has done it, spectacularly, in Dom Hemingway. |