I love this movie so much

Absolutely Fantastic

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I finally saw the whole darn thing. (what I could see on pay cable) Totally blown away.. BTW.BTW.. YES "They" WOULD just walk out of prison. Just like that. Or "Die" in a fake way. Done every day.. even today.I liked how the Hackman Character Killed one of the Bad guys for THEM killing his friend. (cause he called him on the phone when they said not to) Easy to miss it.. That was in the first hotel BTW.Micky Rooney as his protector/handler in prison. Yea I buy that.What IS IT was you reviewers. Stanly Crammer was a real good filmmaker. He must have known or bumped into these "Types" while as a film guy in Hollywood. There is at least ONE Company Film office in Hollywood that everybody knows about. That's where you go to get co-operation for your pro-America film (sometimes). Think "Rambo III" I think. The one when Rambo went to Afghanistan. It was a totally company made film for the masses.. (made to pump up support for Afghanistan and fill the draft rolls) Lets not talk about the latest Transformer movie OK? So yea.. Run down the film because it might not be "Gone with the wind".. But as for Content. I think he Nails the subject totally.Who are they? ????? The ones with the most power and money I guess.The guys who use the awesome power of THREE.GENE

First I bought The Butterfly Effect, now The Domino Principle. In both movies the title makes a promise which is not kept in the least. The metaphor signifying that one falling stone brings all the others down has nothing to do with the story. The main character is rather a pawn in a game of chess, with no will of its own and part of an unknown scheme concocted by the player. Unfortunately the viewers do not learn much about the scheme either and everything simmers down to blind anti-government paranoia.The acting is better than the story, and there are a few great helicopter scenes. This is possibly the last time Richard Widmark used his insane Tommy Udo laughter in a movie. Eli Wallach has not enough screen time to be more than reliable. One of the reasons to watch this is Mickey Rooney. His performance is a sheer delight. He plays Gene Hackman's sidekick in prison and steals every scene he's in. What a great character actor this former child star became! For the opening credits of this movie they seem to have used several childhood photos of Gene Hackman, apart from a number of dominoes.

People are being too hard on the film. Sometimes we should just sit back and enjoy the story without attempting to "review" it.The whole thing comes together when Hackman decides not to pull the trigger but his target still goes down. Then the fun begins as everyone about him also "go down".Just think JFK and all the people associated in any way with his assassination, who's lives ended abruptly and in questionable ways and you'll appreciate what is implied in this film.I think it's an excellent interpretation of what may well have occurred. Though the EXACT story line my not have been followed (hindsight here after reading Jim Maars "Crossfire") but it's what is implied that is of interest.I'd love to get a copy of it to view it again. In light of what is known today, The Domino Principle is right on.

The odd man out (in quality), Stanley Kramer's The Domino Principle taps into the some of the same paranoiac conspiracy gunk that glops up our thinking to this day, and drives the same ground as The Parallax View, Executive Action, Enemy of the State, JFK, etc.Should I go on? And yet, I remember enjoying the book and the movie, not only because I was one of the unwashed masses way back when, believing in anything conspiratorial, but because it seemed out of the norm. I was raised on TV cop dramas, where everything was wrapped up in 52 minutes and I could count the times the bad guys won on one hand.I won't give enough away to have to mark the spoiler box, but The Domino Principle, headed by Gene Hackman and followed by a really strong cast, has bad guys fighting worse guys--a concept foreign to my prime time sensibilities.I remember liking the movie, but after thirty years, I'll be lying if I told you I can remember much about it.With that in mind, I'd say rent it--if you can find it--and throw in Parallax and Executive for a triple-header of evil industrialists, mind-controllers, and sad, little heroes trying to avoid getting squashed.Then return to the real world and repeat the following: "Oswald acted alone."