Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

schuster_mark With so many mindless movies coming out of Hollywood these days, what a refresh to see this film. An affirmation that movies are still being written and filmed by intelligent people. The dialog is superb. The acting is superb and the plot is genius.Pierce Brosnan is one of the most underrated actors of his time. It's easy to write this "pretty boy" off, but he just simply delivers time and time again. Greg Kinnear as well, but he does seem to be "hit or miss" in movies these days. This is definitely a hit! Speaking as a middle aged, white suburban male - it's all our dream to one day break from the mundane day to day life we hold and be pulled into something more exciting (with or without our consent). The kind of excitement we only fantasize about. As human beings we're meant to do so much more with our lives than just wake at 6am and go to an office each day. This movie plays out the "all too common" man losing a grip on his own life, and marriage, only to be resurrected by an odd and completely unexpected acquaintance. Pierce Brosnan nails the role of an eccentric and crazy man searching for meaning in his life. The relationship that develops between Brosnan and Kinnear is developed and written/acted to perfection. By the end of the movie you're wondering if these two completely polar opposite men are brothers.A really well written movie with excellent acting. Very much worth a view.

Prismark10 The Matador is a low budget film but makes good use of location filming to give the impression that its punching above its weight.It also has a cult following and a good soundtrack with a killer end track.Pierce Brosnan continues his anti-Bond roles with a slimy, smarmy, sleazy hit-man having a crisis. When the time for a hit comes he gets the yips and unable to pull a trigger, causing his handlers consternation..Brosnan meets in a hotel bar in Mexico, Greg Kinnear an out of sorts businessman still grieving the loss of his son and feeling the pinch that he is not landing the big clients and his business may go down the tubes.Out in a bull fight arena Brosnan reveals his true vocation and the art of the Matador mirrors that to the art of the Hit-man. However with Brosnan's continuing lack of hits means that he needs Kinnear's help, the two people are unlikely allies but they both kind of need each to get over some obstacles that life has thrown at them.This is an enjoyable film, maybe it takes time to get going but it has dark edgy comedy mixed with bittersweet drama.

Boba_Fett1138 In a way this movie is being like the crime version of "Lost in Translation". It uses a very similar concept of a burned out, aging hit-man meeting an average Joe, in a foreign country and decide on spending their time together. It even somewhat uses the same approach of mixing comedy with serious drama. Not saying that this is a bad thing, or something that really matters but it was just a fun observation I made.The movie is still good and original to watch on its own though luckily. It's a movie with some hits and misses in it but overall I still consider it to be an above average one.The movie does feel a bit awkward at times with its comedy, that just seems to come and go within this movie. The one moment it's a real goofy movie to watch, while the movie mostly is still made in a very serious fashion and tone. But still it helps to make the movie pleasant and easy to watch. And this is a good thing, since it isn't exactly the movie its story that is being its strongest aspect.It's as if the director himself also didn't had really enough confidence in his own written script and tried to spice things up more with an over-stylized, hip, modern style that instead more often came across as too desperate and too wannabee. All of the sings of an inexperienced director but Richard Shepard actually isn't that inexperienced at all, which makes it odd that he really made some wrong choices at times with this movie.One thing that bugged me for instance was that we never saw the Pierce Brosnan character kill anybody in this movie, even though he does supposedly kill a whole bunch of people. Again, to me this was a sign that the director just didn't had enough confidence in either his script and actors. He must had been worried that we wouldn't care or sympathize with the Pierce Brosnan character if we saw him killing people in cold blood.And there absolutely was no reason for that, since it really are the actors that pull this movie and its story through. They do such a good job and I think I have to admit that I have never seen Pierce Brosnan act so well within a movie. He's very convincing and they also did a great job at aging him up. Yes, he of course was already in his 50's but he seems to be a guy that simply ever refuses to start to look old, until this movie came along, in which he really looks like a burned out guy, at an age when everything seems to go downhill for him from now on.So it really is far from a perfect movie, or a must-see but it's a good movie to watch if you happen to catch it on TV when nothing else is on. You probably won't regret watching it, despite of all of its flaws and weaknesses (such as also its editing, which I forgot to mention before) that are in it.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Angelus2 Julian Noble and Danny Wright meet at a bar....It seems they have become life long friends, until Noble reveals his profession, he is a contract killer, Danny frightened by this wants nothing to do with Julian...Until Noble comes calling one night, in search of friendship and a little help, on a job.I was not expecting anything marvellous from this movie, but I have to say I did laugh quite a bit at Pierce Brosnan as he hung up his Armani suits and took on a role that was as far away from Bond as possible, but at the same time he held a gun.Greg Kinnear is surprisingly quite funny as well, playing the everyday average salesman whose only crime in life is that he cares for people, even the bad ones...The sexual innuendos and rude jokes are just hilarious, as Brosnan lets himself go.