Viewer Review: jdfcanada
This is by far one of the best roles Brosnan has ever done and he is both charming and despicable at the same time as Julian Noble.
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Viewer Review: spooly_montana
The most likable dark comedy I have seen this year.
Viewer Review: kingfishfilmco
Easily Pierce Brosnon’s best performance.
Entertainment Tonight. Leonard Maltin
“THE MATADOR is dark, funny and surprising…with one of Pierce Brosnan’s best performances ever.”
Cinema Crazed Review March 7 2007
http://www.cinema-crazed.com/matador.htm
“The Matador” is just really good. ..With great performances, including a scene stealing show stopper from Brosnan, and tight direction, this is a great crisis of conscience tale.
Variety Review by Joe Leydon Jan 23 2005
http://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/the-matador-2-1200528565/
“Deftly maneuvering through audacious mood swings and tonal shifts, “The Matador” emerges as a quirky yet commercial commingling of black comedy, seriocomic psychodrama, heart-tugging sudser and buddy-movie farce. Propelled by a fearlessly self-mocking perf by Pierce Brosnan as a swaggering vulgarian who’s losing his edge as an international hit man…”
Roger Ebert Review Jan 5 2006
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-matador-2006
“I walked into “The Matador” expecting one film, and saw another… Brosnan redefines “hit man” in the best performance of his career (“I facilitate fatalities”), and Kinnear plays with, and against, his image as a regular kinda guy. […]The movie’s writer-director, Richard Shepard, balances the macabre and the sentimental, and understands that although his film contains questions like “don’t successful people always live with blood on their hands?” its real subject is friendship.”