The Ghost / The Matador
24 May 2010
The Ghost would have been a great thriller if I didn’t possess a functioning brain. It was kind of flat and not very thrilling at all (in spite of pretty good performances by the cast). Pretty much the only surprise came at the very end, and that was because it just doesn’t seem remotely possible that people are that organised. I’m not sure what it was that made it not great or terribly fun to watch. Maybe it was simply too obvious. Is that the fault of the novelist, scriptwriter, or director? I have no idea.
The Matador, on the other hand, is Pierce Brosnan’s Sexy Beast, I think. He plays a moustachioed and really unsuave Julian Noble — a corporate assassin — and one of my new favourite actors Greg Kinnear plays Danny Wright, a businessman. The two strike up an unusual friendship in a hotel bar in Mexico and both are changed by the experience. It’s a screwed-up comedy and a twisted buddy film. One of the best moments must be Noble (Brosnan) swaggering through the hotel lobby in speedos and boots. I did not know he had such skinny legs!
I love that I get to watch the Cameo Cinema’s double features for free. There are some stormers coming up in June. One of them involves Philip Seymour Hoffman, which makes me a happy girl.
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