The Matador
2005
***
Director: Richard Shepard
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Philip Baker Hall
A hitman in an existential crisis and a business man in a career limbo run into each other in a hotel bar in Mexico, and form an unusual friendship. Pierce Brosnan sheds off his James Bond reputation to play the professional killer who is rude, selfish and insufferable. If only the script and the dialogue could match the bite of Brosnan's character, this could be more than a perfectly enjoyable but rather forgettable dark comedy.
