the matador be a strange film . it main character julian and play with an unusual mix of charm and unbalance by brosnan and be not your typical hero . julian be a hit man who be experience a late mid life crisis . have spend 22 year in the profession of cold blood murder he now find himself stress out and desperately lonely . and so and after a chance meeting at a bar with danny ( greg kinnear ) and he latch on and begin a halting and awkward friendship . danny and the quintessential nice guy and be deal with some stuff in his own life and and truth be tell and could use a friend as well . the two make an unexpected connection and and danny stick around to hear julian story and even after learn the unsavory truth about julian work . matador approach a subject not completely unheard of in cinema and the anti hero assassin ( film like assassin and grosse pointe blank come to mind ) . but matador differs in several key way . first of all and the killing and gore be imply but never really show in any detail and meaning that if you be an action movie buff look for an adrenaline rush this movie will probably disappoint you . and second and unlike most anti hero film and matador make no attempt to show remorse and redemption from it main character . julian job be simply present a an it be what it be kind of thing . this be unusual and give that 99 . 99 % of u would consider kill for money horrific . and yet this unorthodox approach be perhaps what make the film feel authentic . although we do not like to admit it and almost anything could become mundane after we do it long enough and maybe even murder . do julian victim deserve to die . who be pay to have people kill . who know . the movie never deal with these question . the focus be on julian and his stumbling shuffle into a genuine friendship . if you read about someone like julian in the paper you would have a passing thought that people like him should be rip out of society like a cancer and but force to watch his life you be draw in by his intense humanity . sympathy for the devil and i guess . brosnan take on julian be well do and deeply unsettling . he doesn not completely divorce himself from his james bond good look and smooth charm and but rather just add disturb quirk into the mix . weird or crude remark in the middle polite conversation and sudden shift from suave charm to childish tantrum and sad desperate plea for acceptance . it keep you guess about his grasp on his sanity and how it will affect those around him . it a bit like listen to a piano player that occasionally and unexpectedly hit a wrong note while he play and but it work . the film only other major role and that of danny and be not nearly a meaty . kinnear turn in a solid if unspectacular performance a a regular joe with a regular joe life and problem . the film doesn not really have any huge shock or m night shyamalan twist and but i wasn not able to guess the end and it felt satisfy . it doesn not have any deep philosophical or spiritual insight and yet it felt very human . and it do not have any heart pounding car chase or gun battle and yet i think the pacing be well do and i be never bore . maybe the only real message here be about the human need to reach out and make connection with one another and and how those need have no moral prerequisite . even a murderer need friend and and even good people can be friend with bad people . it a comment on the strange and random world we live in . a good film while worth see .