margarita and cock . this tremendously entertaining film grab you from the opening scene and never stop deliver laugh and surprise and unexpectedly touching moment . i have more fun watch the matador than almost any other film from 2005. it be a wacky film with an unforgettable character and play to perfection by pierce brosnan . julian noble ( brosnan ) be a facilitator ( hit man ) who specialize in high end corporate gig ( assassinate rich dude ) . he be also experience something akin to a mid life crisis . after come to realization that he have no real friend and no permanent home and no planned future and he stumble into a mexican hotel bar one night and run into danny wright ( kinnear ) . danny be a down on his luck family man who be on the verge of lose the big business deal that just might turn thing around for him . he love his wife dearly and especially so since they lose their young son a few year earlier . the two men be chalk and cheese and hardly any common ground other than that they be in the same desolate bar one night . and somehow a conversation be strike that set in to motion a chain of event that will change their life forever . the friendship they form remind me a lot of laurel and hardy . one be the straight man and the other be the persistent fool who get them into trouble . the interplay be superbly time and finely tune and due in no small part to the wonderful performance from brosnan and kinnear . but make no mistake . this be brosnan film . he imprint one of the most memorable and despicably likable character of the decade . he could shoot your mother and apologize immediately thereafter and you would probably forgive him . brosnan may be cinema ultimate charmer and but this be his most endearing and complete performance to date . i wouldn not be averse to see an oscar nod for this role . consider one scene where he overtly ogle a high school girl with the impurest of thought and utters the line and all blushy blushy . no sucky fucky . he do it with the familiar bond smirk and manages to get away with it . he manage to tell a young boy and tell your mother to lose 30lbs and 20 year . then get back to me without come across a unlikable . in fact and it make u like him even more . and yet the film manage to surprise u with some truly touching scene and most of which come toward the end when the film take some unpredictable turn . however and when julian thumb through his little black book to find someone to call on his birthday and or when danny and his wife ( davis ) console each other in their bedroom one night and the film reach an unexpected depth of emotion . the matador be stylish and energetic . it be constantly entertaining . and it contain a career define role for brosnan a the lonely hit man look for normalcy and friendship and a mean to do at least one good thing in his life . this be an overlooked gem in 2005 and you should make an effort to see this film as soon a possible . tc candler of independentcritics . com .