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The setup is intriguing, but Mr. Brooks overstuffs itself with twists and subplots, becoming more preposterous as it goes along.
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The good news: there are many twists, turns, subplots and surprises that the coming attractions don't even hint at. The bad news: these twists and turns are so preposterous, or so irrelevant, that they undermine the movie they're meant to tart up. Apr 7, 2008 | Full Review…
The good news: there are many twists, turns, subplots and surprises that the coming attractions don't even hint at. The bad news: these twists and turns are so preposterous, or so irrelevant, that they undermine the movie they're meant to tart up.
David Ansen
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. Oct 12, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
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.
Derek Malcolm
If you can stomach the psychological codswallop of a serial killer keeping the demons at bay via Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, it may well be possible to enjoy this taut-ish thriller. Oct 12, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
If you can stomach the psychological codswallop of a serial killer keeping the demons at bay via Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, it may well be possible to enjoy this taut-ish thriller.
Cath Clarke
There's plenty to recommend this old-fashioned serial-killer flick. Oct 12, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There's plenty to recommend this old-fashioned serial-killer flick.
Wendy Ide
Despite numerous cutesy twists, it's the gradual unveiling of a warped morality that lures you into Brooks' world. Oct 10, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Despite numerous cutesy twists, it's the gradual unveiling of a warped morality that lures you into Brooks' world.
Stella Papamichael
This wannabe highbrow horror-thriller is a graceless, unfocused piece of work with a central narrative as tonally schizophrenic and wayward as its lead. Jun 23, 2007 | Rating: 2/6 | Full Review…
This wannabe highbrow horror-thriller is a graceless, unfocused piece of work with a central narrative as tonally schizophrenic and wayward as its lead.
David Jenkins
However hellish Brooks' acts might be, we admire how coolly he executes them. So rather than wish jail or worse on Mr. Brooks, the audience joins him in reveling in how neatly he disposes of his victims. Hollywood is, after all, so good at what it does. Oct 16, 2018 | Full Review…
However hellish Brooks' acts might be, we admire how coolly he executes them. So rather than wish jail or worse on Mr. Brooks, the audience joins him in reveling in how neatly he disposes of his victims. Hollywood is, after all, so good at what it does.
Megan Basham
A big-budget psycho-thriller that lets two of our more "sedate" leading men cut loose with some entertainingly juicy performances. Aug 28, 2015 | Full Review…
A big-budget psycho-thriller that lets two of our more "sedate" leading men cut loose with some entertainingly juicy performances.
Scott Weinberg
It's not that Costner is a bad actor. He's just a one-note actor... like a male Julia Roberts. And this just isn't his note. Apr 27, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
It's not that Costner is a bad actor. He's just a one-note actor... like a male Julia Roberts. And this just isn't his note.
Kevin Carr
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. Jan 16, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Pablo Villaça
Initial promise drowns in a tide of subplot complications in this sometimes slick and supremely nihilistic murder thriller which attempts to inject life into Kevin Costner by making him a bad guy. Nov 16, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Initial promise drowns in a tide of subplot complications in this sometimes slick and supremely nihilistic murder thriller which attempts to inject life into Kevin Costner by making him a bad guy.
Peter Calder
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. Oct 27, 2007 | Full Review…
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.
Prairie Miller
It's enjoyable, but nothing to taxing to watch.
Super Reviewer
Kevin Costner as an uber-analytical serial killer (with William Hurt as his visible/audible subconscious, a riot) versus an angry feminist detective Demi Moore. Loved every frame of this, from the first to the last.
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