Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

punishmentpark 'The Matador' promotes bullfights - no matter how you want to look at it or interpret the dialogue between Julian and Danny - and that is something which doesn't belong in a film made in 2005, plain and simple.Otherwise, this is sort of a hit and miss film, with very unlikely things happening (when Danny rhetorically asks himself why he is helping a professional murderer, he asks just the right question, but he fails to actually realize it) between a psychopath and a latent psychopath (later his wife, equally insane, joins in). It's all fine if all these unlikely things took place within a black comedy frame, but no, there is supposed to be a sentimental core to it - either I didn't feel it, or it's just not there, or... both...I was still able to enjoy some of the more comedic aspects (dialogues), it is at times visually handsome, the musical score was just fine, and the acting by Brosnan, Kinnear and Davis (and some others, such as Baker Hall) is just wonderful, so there's the big silver lining.5 out of 10.

Abrar Raza Please don't expect our regular Brosnan. No Shattered(2007), no After the Sunset(2004), and definitely not a 007. He plays his age. And do does the same with panache and the class.Plot Sum: A hit-man meets a regular person(Kinnear). A regular, out of the league of the characters, friendship develops. Leading to a regular end.It Says: The human nature knows no bound in representing their inherent character of being social, which actually, is situational. Anyway, when the so called frequency matches-up, the acceptance leads to expectation. And that expectation threads-up one more purpose of being there. Life is not always about the defined relationships. Sometimes you can also invent a new name of any sort of bonding. Don't restrict yourself, but with caution... :)Enjoy!

oneguyrambling For all the hubbub about pretty sparkling vampires, superheroes, serial killers and zombie hordes, there just might be more films made about the humble hit-man than you would ever think.The Matador is another, and a good one.The hit-man in question is Julian (Pierce Brosnan), a smooth operator who works on contract and never misses a target, leading to his feelings of invincibility and an attitude that is pure bravado. Julian thinks not of what he can do for others, but what others can do for – and to – him. He is a user unafraid of offending anyone, and largely unconcerned of what others think of him. After all he can kill them if he wants! But after a lifetime of continuing the same cycle: prep, kill, celebrate, fornicate, repeat without any real human contact or a place to call home Julian has begun to feel that his own lacks meaning. He wants human contact that doesn't end with a stain of some kind (Sorry!).Julian feels that he has found that when he meets Danny (Greg Kinnear). Danny is a hard working salesman of some kind in Mexico for a pitch meeting that he desperately needs to close with a big account. While the meeting went well he remains in Mexico until he is given a yea or nay in case he needs to wrap up some loose ends. Danny meets Julian after the initial warmth of a job well done has tempered somewhat, and they share a spirited but awkward and ultimately failed conversation at the bar when the talk turns to Danny's dead little boy and Julian simply has no way of empathising.A rocky start.Julian bumps into Danny the next day, apologising profusely and pleading with him to hang out and let Julian make up for it. Off to the bullfights they go! After some time Danny realises that his one-way conversation has told him nothing about Julian himself, after some probing Julian reluctantly opens up to Danny and informs him that he is in fact A Hit-man!!! Oh I mentioned that above didn't I? Let's just move on… Danny is a middle class everyman and is understandably blown away – so to speak – by the news he has been chillaxing with a real life hit-man. He questions Julian about the various aspects of the 'game' until Julian offers to take him on a dry run. This goes so well that Julian asks an aghast Danny to ride co-pilot with him on a real job.6 months later… Julian is still on the job, but is jaded, noticeably slower, and slipping… his facilitator tells him to life his game or he will be 'retired'.Julian concocts a plan to extricate himself from his situation, but it is one that requires Danny's involvement… The Matador has more in common with In Bruges than merely being about hit men. In both films the charm of the film is the interplay between the two leads and the fact that again in both films any thought of PC compromise is thrown out the window. Julian is a grade A w*nker and never pretends he is anything but, aside from his job he knows only alcohol, debauchery and fornication, and he tells Danny (and later his wife Bean) of the same in no uncertain terms. This has been his life for so long now that he simply knows of no other way and can't sugar coat his conversations. (His first reaction to a story about Danny's son's death is to start telling a joke.) This means that wide eyed Danny's reactions to Julian are never less than believable, while he doesn't shrink from the fact that Julian is a hit-man he is nevertheless genuinely scared – and perhaps a little jazzed – at what hanging around Julian might entail.The story is quite simple but I have deliberately left any mention of plot and plot twist out of this review, but I might add that even though The Matador is more about how Danny and Julian interact than what they actually do, the story is worth sticking around for.Final Rating – 7.5 / 10. At a pinch I might recommend In Bruges over The Matador, but you can't go wrong with either..

Angelus2 Julian Noble and Danny Wright meet at a bar....It seems they have become life long friends, until Noble reveals his profession, he is a contract killer, Danny frightened by this wants nothing to do with Julian...Until Noble comes calling one night, in search of friendship and a little help, on a job.I was not expecting anything marvellous from this movie, but I have to say I did laugh quite a bit at Pierce Brosnan as he hung up his Armani suits and took on a role that was as far away from Bond as possible, but at the same time he held a gun.Greg Kinnear is surprisingly quite funny as well, playing the everyday average salesman whose only crime in life is that he cares for people, even the bad ones...The sexual innuendos and rude jokes are just hilarious, as Brosnan lets himself go.