rated R: Pierce Brosnan is just a normal guy – run of the mill hard working man who is a hired out as an assassin. Greg Kinnear is a normal guy too. Husband to his high school sweetheart (Hope Davis) and just waiting for a sales job to click but never does. The movies set up is very effective. Mirroring a bullfight with the seduction, planning, and eventual taking of the victim, the bull, so does Brosnan finagle the same, not only in the bull analogy as the matador, but in conning Kinnear. With a consistent, inspiring and believeable chemistry (a la “The Honeymooners” or “Odd couple”) Brosnan and Kinnear just plain work. A surprise of a small movie that I went in absolutely wanting to detest – the trailer screamed ‘pathetic’ and instead wound up being entertained right to the very last scene. Three tiaras.
