I really hope Domino is not Brian De Palma’s last movie. He was not involved in the ADR, the musical recording sessions, the final mix or the color timing of the final print, all elements he would have been obsessed by. He also told The Playlist, “Domino is not my project, I did not write the script. I had a lot of problems in financing. I never experienced such a horrible movie set. A large part of our team has not even been paid yet by the Danish producers. This was my first experience in Denmark and most likely my last.”

He did at least show some excitement for the idea of this movie, saying ““It is the revenge story of a revenge of a cop duo against terrorists who killed another. But the whole political aspect will be very little exploited, the film was more for me a new opportunity to explore a visual narrative. In the film, terrorists are obsessed with the idea that their actions are instantly visible live on the Internet or on TV.”

The movie starts in the midst of  Copenhagen police officers Christian Toft (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Lars Hansen (Søren Malling) dealing with a domestic disturbance. Hansen handcuffs a man covered in blood, thinking he’s the abuser and Toft goes upstairs to check on the victim. Leaving his gun at home, he takes Toft’s and finds a flat filled with bomb material and guns, as well as one man already dead. Downstairs, the attacker breaks free and slices Hansen’s throat. Toft chases the man across the rooftops with both falling and being knocked out. As he loses his touch with reality, the cop watches three men take away the man he was chasing.

That man’s fingerprints belong to Ezra Tarzi (Eriq Ebouaney). He’s a Libyan Special Forces soldier whose parents were killed by ISIS leader Salah Al-Din (Mohammed Azaay). He’s been trying to get to the terrorist leader — who often films and posts his attacks on the internet — and has already killed one of his soldiers. Toft wants revenge, but is suspended and stuck being questioned by internal affairs inspector Alex Boe  (Cance van Houten) for not having his service weapon.

But the plot gets more twisted, as CIA agent Joe Martin (Guy Pearce) has taken Tarzi and his family, forcing him to work with him to get his own revenge on Al-Din. Now, they have to stop the terrorist before he escapes to North Africa. How much more twisted? Boe is pregnant with Toft’s partner’s child and wants revenge too.

It all ends with a terrorist bombing inside a bull fight arena, crosses and double crosses and a downer ending. What else can we expect from De Palma, even if he didn’t get to finish this?

The one moment that his hand is obvious is during an internet assisted assassination on the red carpet. If every part of this movie could feel like that, it would have been a success.