The Matador
Tags: psychedelic, comedy, murder, storytelling, flashback

Plot synopsis:
Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan) wakes up in bed next to a hooker. He looks in her bag and discovers some purple nail varnish; he paints his toe nails and then burns some documents. Julian walks to a park and sits on a bench in Denver, pretending to read a paper. He keeps staring at a Porsche across the road. A young boy asks him if the Porsche is his car. He says his mom thinks Julian is cute. Julian rudely replies "I don't know anything about that car and I'm only interested in your mother if she lost 20 pounds and 30 years!" The boy goes away and Julian sees a man getting into the Porsche; he quickly gets up and walks away quickly. When the car explodes, Julian doesn't even bother to look.Elsewhere in Denver, Danny Wright (Gregg Kinnear) wakes up at 5:45AM with lightening and thunder breaking continually overhead during a terrible storm. He gets up quietly without waking his wife. He goes downstairs and eats breakfast when his wife, Bean (Hope Davis), comes down, wakened by the storm. They talk about how they will miss each other and Danny replies he will be back in just two days. They embrace and then start to undress for a quickie before he leaves for the airport. Suddenly a tree falls through their roof and they leap to the side before the tree crashes through their kitchen.Danny runs into the Denver airport out of the pouring rain. He meets his business partner. They talk about their upcoming trip and how important it is to their business. They can't afford to miss the plane to Mexico. Coincidentally, Julian is on the same flight. The ticket agent asks him how he is and, after looking at her cleavage for a lingering moment and at her name tag, he replies "Couldn't be better. But more importantly how are you Genevive?"After they arrive in Mexico City, a man walks into a hotel carrying a large metallic briefcase. Julian gets out a taxi and walks into the hotel and after checking in, goes into the hotel bar. The man joins him and orders a beer. They talk casually for a minute. Julian asks the bartender whether there are any good and bloody bullfights on on Sunday. The bartender replies there is a good one with a matador from Madrid. The bartender then asks Julian whether he is in town for business or pleasure. Julian replies "My business is my pleasure". before the man walks away, leaving the briefcase behind, next to Julian.Julian takes the suitcase up to his room and opens it. It contains a sniper rifle and pictures of his target. Danny and his partner are leaving the same hotel on the way to their meeting with a prospective client. They are both worried about their presentation. Julian leaves the hotel after them and goes into the city. He goes to a flea market stand where he target shoots in a booth. Three cute teen age school girls watch him. He smiles at them and scores on the first shot. When he misses the second shot. He smiles at the girls and then laughs. The girls giggle at him.Julian's boss, Mr. Randy (Phillip Baker Hall), meets him and describes the job. He remarks that the girls might be too pubescent even for him! His boss says the schedule has been moved up, and the job has to be completed today. Julian is unhappy. As his boss walks off he shouts back to Julian, "Happy birthday". Julian appears to ahve forgotten it is his birthday.Julian follows his target in the gun's scope from a high vantage point. He shoots the woman and kills her. Elsewhere, Danny and his partner walk joyfully into a bar, exclaiming about how brilliant their first pitch to the client went.Julian returns to his hotel room and watches TV, bored and lonely. He puts on a large Mexican sombrero and then takes it off, annoyed. He calls a number of people and they all hang up on him. He gets really annoyed and decides to head for the brothel.When he returns to the hotel he goes straight to the bar where Danny is also drinking. He orders a margarita and Danny says he looks like he needs one. Julian says how they always taste better in Mexico "margaritas and cock". They begin talking and Julian commends Danny for getting back on his feet with his new business deal after being fired from his job suddenly and left struggling. Julian says something rude and Danny is offended. Julian apologizes and they continue to talk. Danny tentatively reveals that he lost his son in an accident, and Julian responds with a crude joke about a "fifteen-inch schlong," changing the subject. Danny is deeply offended and begins to leave before Julian apologizes. Danny relents and allows Julian to buy him a drink.The next morning Julian walks through the hotel lobby in his tight swim trunks and boots, drinking a can of beer, drawing stares. He kicks off his boots and jumps in the swimming pool. Underwater, he imagines sharks are in the water. At the entrance to the hotel Danny and his partner are upset. The clients now want to hear pitches from other companies. They agree that Danny will remain behind and attempt to secure the contract. Julian sees Danny and apologizes for his rudeness the night before. He tells Danny that he lost his wife while driving drunk. Gaining Danny's sympathy, he invites Danny to a bullfight. Danny is initially reluctant but agrees to join him.At the bullfight they both smoke cigars. Danny is amazed by the experience. Julian tells Danny that he doesn't have a proper address, that he lives wherever he works. Danny is really suprised and asks what Julian does. Julian says he'd rather not say. Julian then explains to Danny the honour of a bull dying in a bull fight and that the crowd respects the bull. Danny finally persuades Julian to say what he does. Julian asks him to not "loose his shit" when he tells him what job he does. Julian says "sometimes people need to be eliminated. Danny does not believe it and jokes about Julian being a hitman. Julian says "my handler calls me a facilitator, a facilitator of fatalities." Danny finds this hilarious and does not believe him.Danny humours Julian and says he wants a man in the crowd killed. Julian agrees and they leave the bull ring. They go outside the toilets and Julian explains the "got-to-pee" theory. He tells Danny about what to and what not to worry about. He shows Danny the escape routes and picked a lock of a door. Danny is amazed.Julian then empties lighter fluid into a bin full of paper. The man Danny joked about killing got up and went into the toilets. Julian threw a cigarette into the bin and it exploded. The guards immediately ran to put it out. Julian dragged Danny away, pulled out a knife and dragged him into the toilets. He goes to the cubicle the man is in. Danny is now scared and begs Julian not to kill him. Julian kicks open the door his knife ready with Danny whimpering. He apologizes to the man and pulls Danny out of the toilets laughing.The two walk down the street together to a little bar. Julian asks Danny a favour. He wants Danny's help with a job and offers to pay $50 000. Danny is revolted by the idea and says no. He changes the subject but Julian changes it back. Danny still says no so Julian walks off in a mood, Danny calls him back and Julian just says "consider me the best cocktail party story you ever met".That evening Danny heard news that the business deal is now going against him. He sits drinking. Julian comes knocking on the door drunk trying to apologize. The screen goes black and you hear a bottle smash. The screen changes to six months later.There are short clips of Julian having sex, drinking and killing people in Vienna, Moscow, Las Vegas, and Sydney. The screen slows down in Budapest where he is meeting Mr Randy. Julian wants to have a break as he feels "burnt out" but Mr Randy said he can't otherwise the agency will find a new young assassin. Julian says he is tired and doesn't want to do that job. Mr Randy remarks about a failure in Manila but pleads with him to do that job. Julian reluctantly agrees and goes off to do it.He is on a roof above a crowded square and has his sights set on his target. He is about the pull the trigger when he sees himself cowering. he tries again but collapses.The screen changes to Mr Randy. He is speaking to the messenger of his boss Mr Stick. The messenger says Mr Stick wants Julian dead. Mr Randy is surprised and sad. He says he's only made two mistakes. The messenger walks off.The screen changes again but this time to Denver where Danny and Bean are having sex. All looks well. That evening they are in bed talking about how they love each other and support each other. Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of their son's death. In the middle of their conversation the doorbell rings. It is late at night so they both run downstairs. Danny look out the door and sees Julian standing there. He lets Julian in and hugs him. He greets Bean and says she's fantastic. Danny asks Julian what he is doing there.Julian replies he doesn't know but Danny and Bean offer him some whisky. They sit down and talk. Julian notices the bull fight ticket framed and on the wall. Julian is touched by this. Bean asks to see Julian's gun. He shows it to her and comments "My god you are a magnificent woman!". Julian comments on how good Danny looks and understands that Danny got the job he went to Mexico for. Julian proposes a toast to Bean, Danny and himself ("a toast to a dead man").The three move in to the kitchen and Julian explains how he messed up in Manila and how he was burnt out. He said he drank and had sex but nothing worked. He still felt terrible. He said he had to kill a Copper Wire Executive in a market. His plan was to bump into him and stab him. But as Julian got near to his target. The target turned into a child. He collapsed and woke up in a pile of donkey excrement.Julian then explained how his jobs from then were hot and cold. He explained his mistake in Budapest and said how his bosses now wanted to kill him. Danny is really amazed and asks can't he just apologize. Julian said it is impossible as he only just got out of Budapest alive because Mr Randy let him off.Bean then asked him how he got here. Julian tells her how their home is the only home he knows. That Danny is his only friend. Bean invites Julian to stay the night. Julian asks Danny whether he can dance with Bean. Danny obliges and Julian and Bean dance beautifully together. Bean then makes a comment about having a horrible hangover. Julian tells her a recipe to prevent this from "the only woman he'd ever loved" his mother. Danny then knows how Julian lied about his wife. There is a moment of tenseness between them. Julian asks whether they want him to leave but they say "No", so he stays.Julian wakes Danny up after they went to bed. He takes him into his rental car. Julian again says he needs Danny's help. He said he had been offered a reprieve from death but needed Danny's help to do it. He couldn't do the job on his own as he was burnt out. He needed Danny to help kill the target. At first Danny says no but after Julian says Danny owes him, he obliges.They flew to Arizona together to the race courses to kill the target. Julian gets Danny to open a door to set off the alarm so he could turn off the alarm in the future. He then asks Danny to bump into the target so Julian could have a clear shot. Julian is on the stairwell with a sniper rifle. Danny does his part but Julian is unable to take the shot he breaks down. Danny goes to find him and together they agree that Danny will talk Julian through firing. They are successful in killing the man.The screen then changes to the plane on the way home. Julian says thank you and Danny says it's ok. They talk about what happened the night where Julian was knocking on Danny's hotel room. There is a flashback and we discover what really happened. Danny let Julian in and they began talking. Danny asked Julian to kill his business opponents. Julian says no as he doesn't think Danny is that type of person and knows Danny will regret it. The flashback ends and they are back on the plane. Danny says " You became my friend that night Julian. You surprised me!" Julian replied "I surprised myself." Julian tells Danny that really he didn't do any assignment and that the person he killed was Mr Stick. Julian killed the guy that was trying to kill him.Bean and Danny, when he got back, went to the cemetery together and Julian after watching them for a while left leaving only a little piece of information showing that he was going to Greece!

Review: Hope Davis has a small, but subtly effective supporting role as Kinnear's wife (what's with her name "Bean"?) who happens to get a little excited when she has a facilitator in her living room.The visuals and settings are perfect - including a bullfight, racetrack and Denver suburb.
During a job in Mexico City he meets Danny (Greg Kinnear), a straight-faced Denver suburban business-man, who's in town to make his deal of-a-life-time, in a hotel bar.
It is a wacky film with an unforgettable character, played to perfection by Pierce Brosnan.Julian Noble (Brosnan) is a facilitator (hit-man) who specializes in high-end corporate gigs (assassinating rich dudes).
After coming to realization that he has no real friends, no permanent home and no planned future, he stumbles into a Mexican hotel bar one night and runs into Danny Wright (Kinnear).Danny is a down-on-his-luck family man who is on the verge of losing the big business deal that just might turn things around for him.
However, when Julian thumbs through his little black book to find someone to call on his birthday, or when Danny and his wife (Davis) console each other in their bedroom one night, the film reaches an unexpected depth of emotion."The Matador" is stylish and energetic.
And it contains a career-defining role for Brosnan as the lonely hit-man looking for normalcy, friendship and a means to do at least one good thing in his life.
The three leads have the best chemistry the big screen has offered in recent years and it looks like they had a great time making this film together.
There is nothing funnier than hearing a sleazy, broken-down version of James Bond exclaim after ogling some Catholic schoolgirls, "God I hate these Catholic countries; it's all blushy blushy, no suckie fuckie." So Brosnan has a terrifically dirty mouth in The Matador and this is juxtaposed with Greg Kinnear's goody-goody family man character in their newfound, unlikely friendship.
THE MATADOR (2005) *** _ Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Philip Baker Hall, Dylan Baker.
Metamovies about genres, and this type done for dramatic effect rather than comedy.I love it, at least when it is novel as is this, "Brick" and "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang." This time the filmic reference is a comic backdrop for what most folks call character development, but in this case is more definition than development because nothing changes.Here's what we have: 1) the backdrop of the world as a movie.
This is the first movie in a long, long time where we both looked at our watches to estimate how much time could be left, and we see a LOT of movies.Both of us think Brosnan is good and, based on some of his other recent works (i.e. After The Sunrise), thought it would be another "fun" movie with him in a relaxed role.
After being hugely entertained by Mr. Brosnan's performance as a cad in "The Tailor of Panama" (which I rate 10/10 across the board: casting, acting, script, story, editing, pace, music, emotional impact, etc.), I enthusiastically anticipated this film.
Absolutely terrible film dealing with a burned out assassin (Julian), played by a hard drinking, heavy smoking Pierce Brosnan and his chance meeting with a conventional business person Danny (Greg Kinnear) The two become friends as Julian tells Danny that he is burned out.
Early in the film we see Pierce Brosnan's character about to leave a hotel room having obviously spent the night with a lovely lady.
Why ??.We never see that girl again nor the toe nails and I don't really see the point.Also throughout the film Brosnan hints at his characters supposed homosexuality and perverse sexual tastes, but nowhere does this get progressed in the film, and I was left thinking "why" "what" "where", and "when".It is obvious that he is a hit-man/ assassin in decline but do you really expect that he would tell Kinnears character what his job was within 5 minutes of meeting him in a bar in Mexico.To make matters worse they then both go to a bullfight and Brosnann decides to show Kinnear a few tricks of the trade by pretending to stalk and nearly assassinate an unknown local while he was on the toilet.
It was quirky and totally unpredictable, thanks to Pierce Brosnan's strange character, "Julian."However, when Julian knocked on the door late at the night in Denver, Colorado, at the house of his buddy "Danny Wright" (Greg Kinnear), the film began to turn sour, and went down the dumper in a hurry.
In The Matador, Pierce Brosnan plays a weary, boozy contract killer who just wants to be friends with Walter Mitty-like Greg Kinnear.
The two make an unexpected connection, and Danny sticks around to hear Julian's story, even after learning the "unsavory" truth about Julian's work.Matador approaches a subject not completely unheard of in cinema, the anti-hero assassin (films like 'Assassins' and 'Grosse Pointe Blank' come to mind).
OK,So i did watch this movie, and although there were some good moments, it just seemed like a long , boring film based on a 5 minute idea someone came up with in the shower or something.
Sure we have a little filthy Chinatown (like all Chinatowns all over the world) but that does not look Manila.The Restaurante sign, it was from the old movie about a fake healer, 20 years ago.I don't know why you think the audience is stupid.Also, I was a catholic high schooler too, I don't think high school kids would find old Pierce Brosnan attractive.
Soon Julian meets Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) in Mexico City, man who's got bad luck: his son died in accident, his job isn't going that well and he's not sure that he can keep his wife Bean (Hope Davis).I always liked movies like this; crime movie with big touch of humor.
I also like Greg 'typical American face' Kinnear in the role of loser that is very lively made because there are plenty of people like Danny Wright.So I recommend you to watch quite possibly the best role of Brosnan ever.
In fact, it's every other hit-man with crisis of conscience movie ever made with a splash of LOST IN TRANSLATION liven up with a much louder and larger version of Brosnan's much better character and much better performance in THE TAILOR OF PANAMA.
Pierce Brosnan (Julian Noble) and Greg Kinnear (Danny Wright) meet at a bar in Mexico City.
That's what the movie is about, Pierce Brosnan is a matador (hit man) that is on his way down, a lonely guy with no manners.
The cinematography is great, the performances in general are good, but the surprise of the night is Pierce Brosnan, in his character (Julian Noble) that steals the show.
Burnt-out professional hit-man Pierce Brosnan travels around the globe snuffing out his targets, but he may be feeling at the end of his rope; in Mexico City, Brosnan strikes up a friendship (his only one) with struggling American businessman Greg Kinnear and involves the mild-mannered man in his life.
This genre appreciation is reflected in the final credit by writer/director Richard Shepard "For my dad, who loved movies." The script and the editing are pitch perfect, managing to give credibility to a slightly silly premise -- that an aging international hit man (Pierce Brosnan) with a Tony Soprano-like nervous breakdown hits it off with a suburban nebbish (Greg Kinnear) -- by making both sympathetic.
From director Richard Shephard comes a razor sharp black drama/comedy featuring outstanding turns from Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear as a burned out hit-man and a down on his luck salesman who, after a chance meeting in Mexico, become quick friends as it becomes apparent that they are much more important to each other than they could have ever guessed.Pierce, in a welcome turn away from his Bond-image, is both hilarious and moving as a flawed but ultimately redeemable character.
It is obvious that he is a hit-man/ assassin in decline but do you really expect that he would tell Kinnears character what his job was within 5 minutes of meeting him in a bar in Mexico." There are more.
Cut to 6 months later: Julian, in worse shape than ever and with a price on his head, has tracked Danny down and asks for his help.The Matador is a relatively simple movie that proves to be more about its characters than anything else.
The real satisfying revelation that occurs at the end of the film is the flashback to what happens between Julian's drunken knocking at Danny's hotel door and the "6 months later." We find out what truly has made these two guys friends.
With a role like this, Brosnan has shown he has a true gift for conveying depth to his character, as well as great comedic timing and eccentricities.The Matador is a very entertaining movie, and much better than I expected it to be.
Julian (Pierce Brosnan) is a hit man experiencing burnout, and Danny (Greg Kinnear) is a straight arrow businessman.
The story takes you from dark to light, from almost seduction to the bullfight arena, then to the marvelous sequence of the fantasy hit.Pierce Brosnan did his best acting in this role.
Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear--mediocre in most of their film appearances--give the best performances of their respective careers.
In the first act, world-weary hit man Julian (Brosnan) and mild-mannered businessman Danny (Kinnear) meet in the bar of the hotel they are both staying at in Mexico City.
Some parts were funny enough, but not enough to describe this movie as a comedy.The characters played by Brosnan and Kinnear are fairly well played out and developed, and the bond between them is strange to say the least.
Some nice artistic touches from Shepard, such as intercutting scenes of a bullfight matador with Brosnan's character getting up to something.The soundtrack is a little cliché at times and there are one or two little twists towards the end, although if you had been paying attention throughout and have watched enough twisty movies they're not too hard to figure out before they happen.
I do remember thinking "Wow, Hope Davis isn't as nearly as annoying as usual" and then saying to myself " You know, Greg Kinnear really was great as the original host on Talk Soup, but boy he sure can play a straight and narrow white guy pretty well too".
The joke you've heard while sitting around bored on a car-trip, or while waiting in line for a movie ticket; or as the assassin Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan) tells Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear), it's just "the best cocktail story you'll ever tell." But The Matador tells this joke and succeeds in extending its telling through a 100 minute running length.
Unlike Sean Connery, however, Pierce Brosnan has capture a role that provides a much more dark comedic, wry humorous role of an aging assassin that makes for a much more human and intimate emotional dramatic movie with a balanced flavor of comedy - shaken not stirred.
I also can understand the way their friendship developed and feel that in the given circumstances anyone could end up following the same sequence of events.I did not like this movie enough to watch it again alone but I would watch it with someone else so that they could experience both the interesting story line and two great actors working together to offer a quality product..
Danny on a Mexico City business trip encounters Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan).
The main character, a hit-man, is played by Pierce Brosnan, most famous for his roles in several James Bond movies.
That seems to be the thinking behind this quirky little gem from rising star Richard Shepard, who has produced a blackly comic film that really makes the most of its unusual premise.Brosnan plays Julian Noble, a washed-up and burnt-out assassin whose lust for cheap booze and sex is only halted by the inconvenience of actually having to finish the job.
Julian Noble is all internal - he's self-reflective and 'tired of it all.' But the film isn't just centered around Brosnan as an actor (though he did co-produce) or as a character.
The film has few comical scenes (but not on purpose), and I only remembering laughing hard at one fifteen-second sequence where Brosnan's character, dirty and drunk off his ass, walks through an up-scale hotel lobby with a bear in his hand and a tight speedo (everyone looks horrified.) I felt like those people in the hotel lobby watching 'The Matador'.
The best performance of the film is Kinnear's blood-lustful wife played by indie star Hope Davis (The Weather Man, American Splendor) and she barely has a part.
Anyway, while in Mexico CITY on business, white bread Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) strikes up small talk in the hotel bar with the smarmy Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan), who looks like a "Saturday Night Fever" extra, and who alternately buddies up to and offends Danny, who was just being polite.
Julian Noble (Pierce Brosnan) is a hit man who's very good at what he does, but is losing his taste for the business.
With unfunny and really daft films like After the Sunset and this, The Matador, it seems that the actor was desperate to move away from the image of Bond but had to make sure he retained some sort of respectability through playing roles that demanded a crime themed character.
Struggling businessman Danny Wight (Kinnear) and Brosnan's hit-man for hire Julian Noble sit and speak while throwing in banter to do with secret agents and spies and espionage.
Billed as "The funniest thing Pierce Brosnan has ever done!" (Compared to what?) The Matador is a story about a lonely hit-man, who starts the lose his grip on the job, and forms a bond with salesman Danny (Greg Kinnear) whom he meets at a hotel in Spain.
The movie involves an odd relationship between a screwball assassin (Pierce Brosnan) and ordinary businessman (Greg Kinnear).
The result is an entertaining mix of comedy and drama about an unusual friendship that takes a couple of unexpected twists and turns.Julian Noble is a professional hit man, who believes he has the greatest job in the world and travels all over the planet to take out his targets.
Despite having Pierce Brosnan in the leading role, who is always a good candidate for a fast-paced action movie, there are very little action scenes in this film, and it is more of a buddy comedy and relationship drama.
Richard Shepard, whose previous work mostly consists of B-movies wrote a dynamic script that mostly focuses on the strange relationship of Julian and Danny, two wonderfully constructed characters with their flaws and good sides to them.
Julian Noble is an obnoxious, but likable character, and without Pierce Brosnan this film certainly would have lost a lot of its freshness and charm.
There is also Hope Davis as Danny's cute wife Bean and Philipp Baker Hall as Julian's handler, who appears in maybe two scenes for a total screen time of less than five minutes.Without Pierce Brosnan, "The Matador" would have been a typical independent film without any stars, but a strong script that is shown on a couple of film festivals and then is never heard of again.
I love Pierce Brosnan, not because of being Jamed Bond, but his meticulous style and charisma he carries in almost any movies like Thomas Crown Affair or the Matador, sad thing is however bad the overall movie is.
There are few movies where it is better you are left with thinking what happened at end but in this one, for god's sake , how come he forgets to add at least two scenes where Brosnan is actually helping Greg Kinnear to eliminate his rivals and both of them working out to o the final work.
He meets Danny (Greg Kinnear) in Mexico and hopes that he can put him straight again.If you like your comedy Pulp-Fiction style, then this is the film for you..
Both Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear are simply brilliant in their characters.
The movie is funny and entertaining and Brosnan proves he's good at comedy.
The film is very much a two-hander with Brosnan (Julian Noble) and Greg Kinnear (Danny Wright) in virtually every scene.Julian meets Danny a Denver consultant in a bar in Mexico City.
It took me a little while, but I finally saw The Matador, starring Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, and Hope Davis.
What I got was a compelling friendship, with some hysterical situations, a mold breaking performance, and a movie I'll remember for a long time.The Matador follows Julian Noble (Brosnan in a Golden Globe nominated performance), an eccentric globetrotting hit-man with fetishes for barely legal girls, cigarettes, and booze, and his friendship with a salesman, Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear).
The Matador is one of those films that combines great acting with a good comedy story.
Having watch this movie last night I was delighted by the performance of Pierce Brosnan.
The movie itself was very entertaining and funny and both Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis are great in their roles.
is just one of the many great lines uttered by conflicted hit-man Julian Noble (Brosnan, in one of his best performances ever).
Greg Kinnear made Brosnan's Julian Noble come to life by playing Danny Wright, a dude who not only falls into Noble's life, but also makes you pity Noble because he seems like a really good guy, even though he is a hit-man.
Brosnan is Julian Noble,a middle-aged hit-man who's one of the best at his job.
The Matador is a witty, dark humored and suspenseful melodrama that rises way above mediocrity thanks to two very engaging and earnest performances from Pierce Brosnan, who has never ever been better than here, and the always reliable Greg Kinnear who has his best role here since playing Jack Nicholson's gay neighbor in As Good As It Gets.
I love watching Brosnan in any movie, he's always good, but this was totally different.