Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

BooBoo516 I am a Jude Law, and I will admit that there are parts of the film that meandered and bored me. Also, some of the comedic touches barely made me laugh. But Jude Law is absolutely mesmerizing as Dom Hemingway. When he is on screen I just couldn't look away. Does the film have problems? Yes, this is a flawed film, however, because of Law's performance I have given this a 7/10. It might be a little too generous, but he made an otherwise distasteful picture quite palatable.

Bryan Kluger It's very rare when I know two minutes into a film that it is going to be simply amazing. Well, 'Dom Hemingway' is one of those rare moments. As I sat in the theater not knowing really anything about the film other than that Jude Law was in it and that director Richard Shepard ('The Matador', 'Girls') made the film, I turned to my friend ReelVixen two minutes in, and whispered, 'This movie is AWESOME!" And through the next 93 minutes, that statement rang true for every second of film. I can easily say that 'Dom Hemingway' is one of my favorite films of the year and I can easily see myself watching this hilarious and fun gangster movie once a week for the rest of my life.If you took the best parts of 'Snatch' and 'Trainspotting', then you would have 'Dom Hemingway', but with a little more heart and soul. And I've been a big fan of Jude Law for many years, but I've never seen him play a role like this. He really gave it his all and lost himself in the title character, Dom. Law mixed Tom Hardy's Bronson character with Leo Dicaprio's Jordon Belfort character from 'The Wolf of Wall- Street', with a pinch of Danny Ocean from 'Ocean's 11' to create Dom, and the results are as fun watching the film as I imagine Law had playing the character. Shepard's script is brilliantly smart, funny, witty, and all the right kinds of cool. I just hope you have as much fun as I did with the film.'Dom Hemingway' opens up with Dom (Law) giving one of the best if not the very best opening monologue in cinema history as he describes in great comedic detail how amazing his downstairs member is. Dom is in prison, serving a good amount of time for a crime he committed several years ago. Turns out that Dom is a pretty successful safe cracker and thief, who worked for Mr. Fontaine (Demian Bichir) along with his right-hand man and best friend Dickie Black (Richard E. Grant), who is excellent in this film - costumes and all.Once out of prison, Dom sets out on an epic bender full of drugs, alcohol, and hookers. I guess he had to make up for lost time in the can all in one night, which he most certainly did. But the task at hand is to travel to Mr. Fontaine's estate and get his deserved money and bonus for the several big jobs he did before he got thrown in prison, with a possibility of hoping right back on the safe-cracking bandwagon. After an accident leaves a couple dead, but Dom and Dickie alive, they rush back to the estate to find that Mr. Fontaine's girlfriend taking off with all of Dom's money.This sets in motion a series of events that has Dom tracking down this woman and trying to find work, which proves more difficult that he expected due to his outrageous behavior. Meanwhile, we find out that Dom had a family before he landed himself in prison. He was married to a beautiful woman who died while he was incarcerated and now his daughter Evelyn (Emilia Clarke from 'Game of Thrones') is grown up and has a family of her own. But Evelyn is not to keen on her father, as he has been away for most of her life and doesn't even call him dad, but rather Dom.The movie takes a turn and shows that Dom wants to change his ways and become the father figure to her as well as a grandfather to his cute grandson. But all the while, Dom is still that wild and crazy thief who can pick up a large metal safe, pretend to have sex with it, knock out a wall or two, and open the safe all within a few minutes. And Shepard tells this great tale with sincerity and style. No matter how Dom conducts himself, you just want to be his friend and be there with him on his adventures, even though he seems to have a run of bad luck. And Law just pulls out all of the stops and delivers an award winning performance. Clarke is great here too, but is not given a whole lot of screen time do really dive into the character. The costumes are straight out of a Wes Anderson movie, and I won't be surprised to see somebody dress up like these characters for Halloween this year.If you're looking for an incredible time at the theater and want to laugh for 93 minutes straight, then by all means, get out and see 'Dom Hemingway' as many times as you can.

Vinicius Andrade Dom Hemingway is a movie with a lot of dark humor and a main character who has no fear to say what comes into his mind. Some hilarious scenes do happen, but the overall is a movie which the story isn't well developed. The best of the movie is Jude Law being Dom Hemingway. His performance, one of the best of his career, is what outshines everything. The character is a very rude guy, he's disrespectful and almost every time he speaks we feel the character's rage and due to this rage, a lot of curses, insults comes out of his mouth. Jude Law's performance made the character more believable, because he successfully created a character that from how he was communicating, both verbally and physically, we could notice what was his emotions.The friendship between Dom Hemingway and Dickie Black (Richard E. Grant) is odd, because of the swearing they say to each other, but even with the curses, we notice a real companionship among these two persons. In the beginning, I had fun watching Dom's behavior but the as the film progressed the insults weren't as funny as in the beginning. The tone changes during the film, and it's not done correctly. It seems like in a part of the movie there's a furious, fearless and rude Dom Hemingway and the other part has a sad, seeking forgiveness and regretted guy. If done properly, it would make the film much more interesting and might create a character who would be more remarkable and significant.

secondtake Dom Hemingway (2013)Yeah, as many reviewers say, this is a mixed bag. Jude Law is excellent, but he plays such a repellant character you don't really care how good he is. Or care about his fate. The movie around him is well built, well made. The plot around him is thin, however, really boiling around him trying to get some money back from old cronies after getting out of jail.So heads are bashed and one flamboyant escapade after another pulls us along, with no real "development" of either the plot or the character. You can't say it gets exactly boring because it's all so outrageous, but it isn't satisfying, either.So director Richard Shepard deserves credit for being brash and out there. And writer Richard Shepard (same guy) deserves some criticism for not taking this bold scenario anywhere actually interesting. Or moving. Or, blimey, original. It's odd to notice that a movie this original lacks basic originality. For a fast and unfair comparison, look at "Pulp Fiction" for a similar outrageous romp with cons and ex-cons. That one was original, whatever you think of it. This one lacks all those loops and hoops, the formal and narrative surprises that you actually do need.See it? Maybe not. Law is truly excellent and in some ways it's worth seeing him for his acting, if you can appreciate that separate from the rest of it. He's so different than his usual sweet pretty boy self, it's a minor jolt. And there are some fun, campy aspects to it all that keep it perky and odd, or at least peculiar, which is worth something. That it doesn't matter, or gel, might not matter if you just like the style.