Mr. Brooks (2007)
Movie Title: Mr. Brooks (2007)
Actors: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Run Time: 121 minutes
Movie Description
Consider MR. BROOKS. A successful businessman. A generous philanthropist. A loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he’s perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret… he is also the notorious Thumbprint Killer and no one has ever suspected it… until now.
Movie Review
Kevin Costner as a warped serial killer, a pillar of the community whose dark side is embodied by an on-screen William Hurt? You have to admit, it sounds intriguing, right? Mr. Brooks is the vehicle for this unsavory story, and it turns out to be a lot less kicky than it sounds. Mr. Brooks is a Portland, Oregon tycoon and philanthropist whose “addiction” to murder is suddenly re-surfacing–with plenty of help from his sneering alter ego, who generally sits in the back of the car, goading Mr. Brooks on. (The other characters can’t see William Hurt in all this, of course.) The unbelievably convoluted plot has Mr. Brooks confronted by a blackmailer (comedian Dane Cook) who has a surprising twist on things, and trailed by a cop (Demi Moore) who comes equipped with her own set of professional and marital woes. As if that weren’t enough, when Brooks’s daughter (Danielle Panabaker) comes home, it becomes clear that some traits run in the family.
The scenes with Costner and Hurt are the best stuff in the film, even if director Bruce Evans can’t figure out how to play fair visualizing their presence to others. But the script, which among other whoppers make Demi Moore’s character a millionaire, is just too unbelievable to stomach. If William Hurt’s character provided a running commentary for this movie, there wouldn’t be anything left after he got through mocking it. –Robert Horton
Plot Synopsis
After Mr Brooks (Costner) receives a “Man of the Year” award, we find out he is a serial killer haunted by the voice of his alter ego inside his head. Divided between a cold and racional Brooks and an emotional and intuitive Marshall (Hurt), he decides to satisfy Marshall by killing his last victims and then “retiring” to a simple family life. But something goes wrong and he can leave his life of crime. Meanwhile, things start to go wrong with his perfect family life, and a rough cop specialized on serial killers (Moore) begins to chase him. Mr. Brooks soon finds out that the only way to put an end to his life of crime is to kill again, and then some more. Or die in the process. Kevin Costner is brilliant in his depiction of an emotionless man, showing a different view of himself according to the situation he’s in: a passionate husband, a caring father, a cold personality, or a perverted killer - noone could have pulled so many different expressions and still come out emotionless as he did.
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