The Matador
February 25, 2007
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A lot of things can happen in a bar. You can meet some strange people. Those strange people end up changing your life, in ways you never expected. So starts the movie “Matador”, starring Pierce Brosnan in the role of lead man with the gun, without the panache or noble aims of James Bond.
Brosnan is Julian Noble, hit man for hire. He travels the world, taking on corporate “jobs”, and is sitting at a bar in Mexico City, contemplating the fact that there’s no retirement plan in his line of work, and the mirror behind the bar says he’s not getting any younger.
Down the bar sits Danny Wright, also at a crossroads in his much duller life as a traveling salesman. Wright is struggling to keep his head above water in a competitive retail world where he doesn’t have the drive to keep him at the top. Add in the domestic crisis taking place at home, and he too is wondering what his future holds.
The two get together, but their budding friendship is nipped by Noble interrupting Wright’s most intimate revelation with a dirty joke. The rift is patched up, and the duo head off to a bullfight to bond….and not James Bond, either. Once there, Noble explains what he does, and how easy it is to carry out.
The odd relationship is on solid ground when they part, and a good thing, for Noble turns up at Wright’s doorway months later, to be greeted by the salesman’s wife asking if he brought his gun. The hit man fascinates them both, and they intrigue the hit man, who has never lived their kind of lives.
Now close to each other physically as well as emotionally, Danny Wright becomes involved in Julian Wright’s “business”, although their personal motivations are still worlds apart. Set up as a study of two disparate characters, “Matador” takes you on a wild and sometimes poignant ride on an emotional roller coaster that rises to comedy, dives into depression, and coasts to a finish on the rails of friendship.
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