Bullfighter

This stylish and involving modern-day Western stars Olivier Martinez as a drifter who has a penchant for bullfighting and the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Specifically, he witnesses a mobster’s daughter being gored to death, which leads to him getting framed for murder and becoming the quarry of a host of unrelenting assassins. Directed by Rune Bendixen, who co-wrote the script. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (“El Mariachi,” “Sin City”) has a cameo. Michelle Forbes., A unique Western for the new millennium, director Rune Bendixen’s Bullfighter tells the darkly comic tale of a drifter framed for murder and subsequently hunted by a horde of unrelenting assassins. Jack (Olivier Martinez) is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite his fascination with bullfighting he leads a largely peaceful existence. When a crime boss’ daughter is accidentally gored to death, Jack is implicated in the unfortunate event and singled out for termination by a seemingly unending army of lethal hitmen. As Jack wages an uphill battle for survival against the harsh desert terrain and a hail of gun smoke and lead, his will to live depends on his ability to exercise his demons and come to terms with the fact that he may not live to see another sunrise.