2005 · action · comedy · crime
The Matador
Directed by Richard Shepard1h 37m2005
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.
Our read: The Matador (2005) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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