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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: HD DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019797078
Label: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 44310
Studio: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 27, 2006
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Description:
This hip and hilarious dark comedy finds boorish, on-the-job hit man Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan) in a Mexico City cantina where he meets mild-mannered Denver businessman Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear), both of whom are at a crossroads in their lives and careers. Over too many margaritas, they form a strange friendship built on the dark and drunken honesty shared among strangers who believe they will never see each other in the light of day. However, months later, back in Denver, the doorbell rings at the Wright residence, and Danny and his wife Bean (Hope Davis) find Julian on their doorstep, a desperate, broken man. What else can they do, but to take him in?
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 Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Different Kind of Buddy Movie
Richard Shepard's The Matador presents a new take on the assassin film. No longer the stuff of the Steven Segal movie of the week, Shepard presents his gunman as a man on the verge of total collapse looking for a friend and loooking for a way out of his profession.
Pierce Brosnan gives a career defining performance as Julien Noble, a burned out hitman, on his way to collapse. After four James Bond films this is the ultimate anti-Bond film. The character is disheveled, unsure of himself ... Read More
Rating: - A facilitator of fatalities meets a nice guy in a fine, funny and potty-mouthed black comedy
Even assassins can have a crisis of conscience, and this smart black comedy of rifle shots and mercenary murder gives us the ten-step program. What makes The Matador interesting is that the movie isn't about rehabilitation, but friendship.
Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan) is an assassin, or as he prefers to put it, "I facilitate fatalities." Unfortunately for Noble, he's seen better days, physically and professionally. Anxiety attacks sometimes spoil his aim. Age and the appearance of being ... Read More
Rating: - Brosnan Gives Bond the Finger
After MGM dumped him from the stagnant Bond franchise and implicitly questioned his abilities as an actor, Brosnan signed on to The Matador and turned in the performance of his career.
Brosnan plays Julian Noble, an unkempt, oft-inebriated, and decidedly unsuave world-class assassin who suffers from panic attacks. In other words - he's the anti-bond. Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis play the ordinary couple who are sucked into Julian's world in this odd mash-up of spy-thriller and buddy comedy, ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
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