Mr. Brooks (2007)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 84 | Rotten: 69
The setup is intriguing, but Mr. Brooks overstuffs itself with twists and subplots, becoming more preposterous as it goes along.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 23
The setup is intriguing, but Mr. Brooks overstuffs itself with twists and subplots, becoming more preposterous as it goes along.
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A hardened detective enters into a tenuous symbiotic relationship with the vicious serial killer she is tracking after earning the respect of the murderous madman in this vicious psychological thriller starring Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, and William Hurt. Earl Brooks (Costner) is a successful businessman, noted philanthropist, and loving father. He's the kind of man whom no one would ever suspect of being a notorious serial killer, but then again history's most dubious psychopaths are often the
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Cast
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Kevin Costner
Earl Brooks -
Demi Moore
Tracy Atwood -
Dane Cook
Mr. Smith -
William Hurt
Marshall -
Marg Helgenberger
Emma Brooks -
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Hawkins -
Danielle Panabaker
Jane Brooks -
Aisha Hinds
Nancy Hart -
Lindsay Crouse
Captain Lister -
Jason Lewis
Jesse Vialo -
Reiko Aylesworth
Jesse's Lawyer -
Matt Schulze
Thorton Meeks -
Yasmine Delawari
Sunday -
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All Critics (157) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (71) | DVD (24)
This wannabe highbrow horror-thriller is a graceless, unfocused piece of work with a central narrative as tonally schizophrenic and wayward as its lead.
Top CriticMr. Brooks spins a web that will wrap you up in nightmares.
The movie is so well made, and so compelling as a portrait of a man at war with himself, that, right up until the end, many people will probably be entertained by its intricately preposterous story.
[Director] Evans keeps flirting with a potentially rich idea only to surround it with indigestible amounts of silliness.
Quite a few plot lines and character quandaries remain unresolved. And yet the movie makes sense as it stands. After all, one can never know what makes a psychopath tick.
Certainly more genuinely creepy than many recent thrillers, and the supporting cast is effective.
Costner's delusional serial killer isn't for kids.
A dinâmica entre Hurt e Costner carrega Instinto Secreto: exibindo uma imensa química em suas cenas, os dois atores estabelecem um sentimento misto de tensão e camaradagem entre seus personagens.
It's oddly entertaining, as long as you lower your threshold of disbelief...
The audience is apt to forget its own vicarious indulgence in some fairly perverse, psychologically unhinged acted out fantasy, as Kevin Costner masterminds erotically tinged guilty pleasures.
The audience is apt to forget its own vicarious indulgence in some fairly perverse, psychologically unhinged acted out fantasy, as Kevin Costner masterminds erotically tinged guilty pleasures.
Costner gives a nicely underplayed performance and the film is well enough made to be watchable, if only to find out what enormity will be perpetrated next, and by whom.
Costner's double-act with Hurt is a wicked pleasure, like The Odd Couple with a psychopathic twist.
Kevin Costner as a schizophrenic serial killer? Demi Moore as a hardboiled police detective? No, we don't think so.
It does keep you guessing until the end, but Mr Brooks turns out to be Mr Average after all.
There's enough ambition for a miniseries here, and satellite viewers already have the rather terrific Dexter. Stuffed into two hours, it's all a bit of a pile-up.
Audience Reviews for Mr. Brooks
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- Earl Brooks: The contents of your safety deposit box, Mr. Smith... have vanished!
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- Hawkins: I wouldn't take the bullet but I would push you out of the way.
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- Marshall: Why do you fight it so hard, Earl?
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