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List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.49 You Save: $3.46 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 27 January, 2006 DVD Release : 04 July, 2006 |
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The Matador (Widescreen Edition) description 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 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A touching story of hope and friendship |
| A salesman and a hitman meet in a bar in Mexico City. What results is a touching tale of hope and friendship between two people who couldn't be more different. Well, sort of. Actually, "The Matador" is a really entertaining and hilarious film.
Pierce Brosnan, who seems to be favouring character roles now that he is getting too old to play heroes, plays Julian Noble, a burnt out hitman who happens to meet Greg Kinnear's struggling salesman while on a job in Mexico. As Noble, Brosnan is over the top and hilarious to watch. He's hyperactive, in your face and not in the least bit apologetic for it. Kinnear arguably has the harder role of the two, as his character is essentially just there to witness the actions of Noble, and yet he manages to make his character believable and more than just a spectator. The plot of this film is nothing new, you could argue that it is just "The Odd Couple" with sex and violence. Yet, it is well done, and although not the most memorable of films, watching it did provide me with a good evening's entertainment. |
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