Surprisingly a Great Movie! A Good Example of Friendship...Word!

I was so surprised at how good this was, how it took a single concept and give it so much depth and characters that we can care about. Its an epic movie with a small scope between dialogue and character development. Its not minimalists, but very humanistic at its approach. The story is about a hitman that is doing an assignment on his birthday. Its funny, because Pierce Brosnan nearly steals the whole show. Actually he does. Rather than playing a suave British man, the movie gives Brosnan to explore his Irish and get all loose. He is backward Irish hitman with contempt to screw anything that moves. His taste is mainly young girls, and he is also a drinker. Its some rare moment that we actually fall in love with him as the movie unfolds and start rooting for him. Then comes the traveling salesman that comes to Mexico city to where Jules(Brosnan character) is doing his assignment on his birthday played by the hit-and-miss Greg Kinear. He plays Danny the straight laced guy that for no apparent reason just happens to talk to Jules and they start a friendly conversation that ends with more drinking and funny one-liners. The conversation goes well until Jules breaks the ice, masterfully overlapped dialogue by Pierce that leads Danny to leave. Jules feels sorry for him and starts to make it up to him, because somehow he is lonely hitman on his birthday. The movie goes to a day where Jules gets really buddy buddy with him and asked if he can help him with a job. The right there breaks the ice between them two...But not exactly because after messing up an assignment he comes to Danny's house with his wife(played by Hope Davis) on Christmas Eve for a hide out. Watch all the wackiness ensue. It doesn't take cheap physical comedy, but with good dialogue and a sensible story that makes Jules more redeeming.
The movie doesn't go into the tired cliche of the hitman teaching the straight lace guy everything about life and what's wrong with his. Instead it involves a friendship and the reverse of that cliche about the hit man learning from the straight lace guy. It doesn't go into sentimentality, well for a little bit but relaxes itself into funny one-liners. The way I'm describing it makes it sound like a sweet movie, but its not. It felt like an after-school special on friendship, but didn't get to preachy. In a way it is a sweet movie, but in a whole different way. Originally this films was slated for an NC-17 for sex(which there is a lot of) and a little bit of violence. It was cut down to R, but didn't change the feel of the whole movie. It skates on thin ice with vulgarity, but has a high morale for it.
Examining the whole hitman being the purveyor of everything that is right for the straight lace guy. It first goes into it with Jules telling Danny what he does for a living at bullfight and showing him by using a fake target and how to actually assemble a kill. The rush goes on and cuts back to a bull fight and looks like something out of a Budd Boetticher film, and executed well done that leaves a smile on your face. Then the movie goes where Jules actually envies what Danny has and respects the fact that he is good guy. Hope Davis does a wonderful job playing Bean, Danny's wife also supplied with good one-liners. The whole movie isn't conveyed in one-liners but really memorable dialogue that will have you laughing and reminiscing about it through out the night. Richard Shepard did an awesome job and I would be looking forward into his career. He's done some other stuff that I'll be taking a peek, but this might showcase his true talents. This is Aliye Nyoka saying "Peace Out"