The Matador
The Matador Release and Review
Our latest report, thanks to 'RS', stated that the reason why The Matador was being pushed back came down to two elements -- The Weinstein Company and Pierce Brosnan himself. As most would have guessed, the newly formed Weinstein Company have been picking up and promoting projects left and right, something that may have got them a little caught up.
If that wasn't enough, Pierce Brosnan [the freakin' Matador himself... not really] is a little too involved with a new project and wasn't able to do press for the film until a later date. Hence, we can now expect the wide release for The Matador to come our way on January 6th [10 biggest markets] and then January 20th.
I know, waiting longer always sucks. However, how about another review for The Matador to cheer us up?
This extremely positive review [snippet] comes from the mind of Roger Ebert:
"The Matador" sounds on paper like a formula film, the kind of generic dreariness you expect Sundance to avoid.
On the screen, it's another matter altogether -- funny, quirky and sad, and wonderfully well-acted. The Sundance premiere audience walked out astonished by a film so much better than they'd expected.
Well, what did we expect? The movie stars Pierce Brosnan as a professional hit man, and Greg Kinnear as an unemployed Denver executive.
Everything I have described could perfectly well add up to a mediocre comedy destined for the video shelves. But it adds up to so much more.
Writer-director Richard Shepard finds an eerie balance of the macabre, the delightful and the sentimental; the movie is so nimble it sometimes switches tones in the middle of a sentence.
Everything centers on the best performance Pierce Brosnan has ever given. He's a loner with no home and no friends, a man who uses booze and prostitutes to distract himself from killing people for a living. He's coming to pieces when he meets Kinnear in a hotel bar. They have a series of conversations so pitch-perfect, even in
the way they can't agree on the same pitch, that just to listen to them
is a delight entirely apart from what it leads to. Kinnear can hardly believe Brosnan actually kills people, and there is a virtuoso sequence at a bullfight when Brosnan demonstrates how easy it would be to kill -- well, almost anyone. But he's beginning to fall apart, and botched a job in the Philippines.
Please take note of the new release dates for The Matador below:
The Matador has a limited [LA, NY] on December 23rd, wide release [10 biggest markets] on January 6th, and then a full release on January 20th.
For more movie stills, trailers, clips and movie info, go to The
Matador Movie Page.
Stay tuned for updates.
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