It’s a rather cheesy movie about a nobody meeting an assasin. What makes it great that Brosnan plays a direct inverse of James Bond.
Bond is the suave womanizer that kills for noble causes and always gets the girl. Julian Noble (his character in TM) is a very troubled killer for hire who has no social life, is an depraved camp alcoholic. You know, kinda what James Bond is without everything suave.
The everyday man (Greg Kinnear) (and later his wife) gets intrigued by this killer as his lifestyle is fascinating to them and kind of yearn to be him, like some folk pretend to be James Bond sometimes. But this assasin is terrified of being brought down by his peddler, as he cannot bring himself to kill anymore. He calls on his only friend, the nobody to help him finish the last job.
It’s very camp, not the greatest film of all times but a solid buddy movie in which Brosnan burns down his Bond straightjacket and brings an awesome role to the table.
I watch it every now and then, but it’s the one movie I love that I’ve never seen anyone recommend ever.
The Matador (2005)
It’s a rather cheesy movie about a nobody meeting an assasin. What makes it great that Brosnan plays a direct inverse of James Bond.
Bond is the suave womanizer that kills for noble causes and always gets the girl. Julian Noble (his character in TM) is a very troubled killer for hire who has no social life, is an depraved camp alcoholic. You know, kinda what James Bond is without everything suave.
The everyday man (Greg Kinnear) (and later his wife) gets intrigued by this killer as his lifestyle is fascinating to them and kind of yearn to be him, like some folk pretend to be James Bond sometimes. But this assasin is terrified of being brought down by his peddler, as he cannot bring himself to kill anymore. He calls on his only friend, the nobody to help him finish the last job.
It’s very camp, not the greatest film of all times but a solid buddy movie in which Brosnan burns down his Bond straightjacket and brings an awesome role to the table.
I watch it every now and then, but it’s the one movie I love that I’ve never seen anyone recommend ever.