10 Amazing Films From Directors Who Stopped Giving A Damn

4. Domino - Tony Scott

The late Tony Scott might easily have wound up a bit of an also-ran in Hollywood. From the start, he seemed doomed to be trapped in the shadow of his more widely acclaimed older brother Ridley Scott; and yet, with his massive breakthrough hit Top Gun, the younger Scott was soon the more commercially successful of the two.

Yet rather than resting on his laurels, Scott continued to make a point of trying different things, even in the later years of his career. So it was with his 2005 film Domino.

On paper, it sounds simple enough. Keira Knightley takes the lead as Domino Harvey, a real-life character who made the distinctly unusual career progression from fashion model to professional bounty hunter.

However, Scott crafted something very far removed from your standard biopic. Domino builds on the aesthetic of his preceding film Man On Fire, but takes it to another level, with a hyper-kinetic visual style, disorienting editing, a persistently thumping soundtrack, and a plot that's often near-impossible to follow.

It's hard to pinpoint quite what Scott was trying to say with the film, beyond the simple truth that fact is often stranger than fiction. The director later admitted, "I got overcome by the insanity of the world I was touching."

Still, it's not every day you see a 61-year old filmmaker with decades of experience to come out with something so positively bursting with youthful energy, irreverence and IDGAF attitude.