The Matador (2005)

I attended a preview of this film which goes on general release next week and can recommend it as an entirely enjoyable 90 minutes.  Post-Bond this is rather a more successful effort from Pierce Brosnan, since neither "After the Sunset" or "Laws of Attraction" was much cop.  In it he plays a "facilitator", otherwise known as an assassin, who represents the flipside of James Bond -- he's scruffy, he's foul-mothed and despite all the sex, he's lonely.  In between flitting around the world on assignment, he meets Greg Kinnear's everyman husband in Mexico where the latter is hoping to clinch a business deal to save his financial life and his very happy marriage.  Kinnear is attracted to the exotic side of Brosnan's life but balks when his assistance is asked.  Some months later after a botched kill, Brosnan appears at his door -- his life is threatened and he sees Kinnear as his only friend.  One is aware that Brosnan's stories might embroider the truth, so where the film goes from there does present the viewer with a hugely satisfying conclusion along with several surprises.