Movie pimp! The Matador
Feb. 5th, 2006 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So I could have stayed home to watch Seattle in the Superbowl, or I could have gone out seeking more slashy films. Tough choice, huh?
Here we have perfectly sick and twisted male bonding, with Pierce Brosnan as a sleazeball hitman with absolutely no social graces whatsoever, and Greg Kinnear as the desperate salesman he meets in a bar in Mexico. Some beautiful comedy moments, but even more than the outrageous dialogue, it's really the acting of the three leads (including Hope Davis as the salesman's wife) that makes this both so funny and so cringe-inducing. The perfect timing of expressions and reactions from all of them make you really feel those hideous moments and awkward silences as the 'normal people' deal with the weirdness of an assassin having a life crisis.
Kinnear and Brosnan are just brilliant as each man looks to the other for the solutions to the failings of their own life, and their performances give the film a degree of subtlety that what is basically a shallow, campy, popcorn movie would otherwise lack. Not a film to make you think, just great fun!
And now I have to nick a line from this film and go and make an icon *eg*
Here we have perfectly sick and twisted male bonding, with Pierce Brosnan as a sleazeball hitman with absolutely no social graces whatsoever, and Greg Kinnear as the desperate salesman he meets in a bar in Mexico. Some beautiful comedy moments, but even more than the outrageous dialogue, it's really the acting of the three leads (including Hope Davis as the salesman's wife) that makes this both so funny and so cringe-inducing. The perfect timing of expressions and reactions from all of them make you really feel those hideous moments and awkward silences as the 'normal people' deal with the weirdness of an assassin having a life crisis.
Kinnear and Brosnan are just brilliant as each man looks to the other for the solutions to the failings of their own life, and their performances give the film a degree of subtlety that what is basically a shallow, campy, popcorn movie would otherwise lack. Not a film to make you think, just great fun!
And now I have to nick a line from this film and go and make an icon *eg*
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Date: 2006-02-05 06:46 pm (UTC)I was falling over laughing at *so* many lines in the movie... never have I seen Pierce Brosnan so deeply unappealing, and yet so riveting! ;-)
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Date: 2006-02-05 07:13 pm (UTC)I'm with you on Brosnan. It's impressive how he manages to be so unattractive in this, yet somehow still kind of charming and sexual at the same time. I've always loved his touch with comedy, though, and it's good to see him really get his teeth into it here.
This didn't have me howling as much as 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang', but I guess it depends on whether your taste in sick humour leans more towards madness with corpses or inappropriate sexual references XD