Product Description

A fast-paced edgy film about a hitman (Brosnan) who suddenly finds himself as the mark and the salesman (Kinnear) he befriends in a Mexican bar and recruits to help him.System Requirements:Running Time: 97 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 796019791595 Manufacturer No: 79159

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12847 in DVD
• Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
• Released on: 2006-07-04
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .15 pounds
• Running time: 97 minutes

Amazon.com
Pierce Brosnan gives one of his finest performances in The Matador, a low-key buddy comedy with an agreeably sinister twist. Light-years from his former James Bond image, Brosnan is unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable as freelance assassin Julian Noble, who encounters desperate businessman Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife "Bean" (Hope Davis) is equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his touch as a reliable hit-man, Julian needs Danny's help with "one last job," but the logistics of Julian's lethal profession (involving an employer played by Philip Baker Hall) are secondary to writer-director Richard Shepard's offbeat, slightly uneven character study, which gives Kinnear and Brosnan a memorable opportunity to riff on their established screen personas. In making Julian a likable yet tormented drifter who's made a habit of "running from any emotion," Brosnan creates an edgy yet sympathetic character as mysterious as he is fun to be around; if you're going to befriend a hired killer, you could do far worse than a guy like Julian. As Brosnan plays him, he's worthy of a sequel, but The Matador is the kind of entertainingly quirky movie that's a hard act to follow. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Underappreciated actors show their range
This film can't be categorized and that's a good thing. The tone of the movie stands on the line between parady/satire and drama. Of course the subject of murder is serious and we shouldn't take it lightly. Brosnan plays a hit man who starts to feel remorse and longs for human connection. Kinnear plays a 'normal' businessman with real life worries and a life that Brosnan's character is drawn to. The question is, who will pulled into whose life. Much of the film covers both characters everday life events so we know a lot of who the are and what they do. In spite of the subject matter it isn't a flashy movie but much is done with subtlety. This movie deserved much more praise and exposure than what it got. Hopefully many have found it on dvd.

Pierce Brosnan steals this show.
Brosnan plays a creepy yet wierdly amusing aging hitman. He runs into a struggling middle class businessman played by Greg Kinear in a Mexico City hotel bar and begins to wreak havoc in his life. All in all they make a pretty entertaining pairing and the film works as a light off-beat comedy.

Brosnan really is different from all the polished James Bondish characters he has portrayed. He comes across as slightly deranged, disheviled and just a bit sleazy,yet likeable.

Worth checking out.

Oscar & Felix play dangerous games...
The best thing by far in this flick is Brosnan's performance. He's brilliant, Michael Caine in Tom Selleck's somewhat over-the-hill body. This could have been a Jack Lemmon + Walter Matthau outing & in fact resembles Buddy Buddy in some plot points. The plot gets icky & sentimental which is too bad but kind of predictable with cute & likable Kinnear as co-star. Like his tour-de-force performance in Tailor of Panama, Pierce Brosnan can give you the full measure of a very true & complex human being. I hope he finds more anti-hero parts like this. Maybe in a just world he will be awarded the Oscar he so fully deserves.