I promise I'm not intentionally watching similar movies back to back. I got The Matador as a disc and had a couple of days where I wouldn't get the next one so I jumped over to my Streaming Queue. This one was on top, despite being dowin around #22 in the DVD queue. It's just coincidence that they happen to follow one another.Although, not that big of a coincidence considering that half my movies contain assassins of some sort.
Anyway, this one is also about an alcoholic hitman but it's way funnier. Frank (Ben Kingsley) works as a hitman for the Polish mob in Buffalo. His drinking causes him to pass out when he's supposed to be killing a rival mob boss (Dennis Farina) so his bosses send him to San Francisco to dry out. The mob contact there (Bill Pullman) gets him a temporary job as a mortuary assistant and enrolls him in AA. Luke Wilson is his gay sponser and Tea Leoni is the woman he meets after her stepfather dies.
Ben Kingsley is a much better actor than Pierce Brosnan and this movie is much more well written than Matador. That one I would say is fairly middling but I liked this one a lot. Probably still not going to buy it, unless I see it somewhere for $4. Then I might.
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