Synopsis
The man who has everything has everything to hide.
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
2007 Directed by Bruce A. Evans
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Kevin Costner Demi Moore Dane Cook William Hurt Marg Helgenberger Danielle Panabaker Ruben Santiago-Hudson Reiko Aylesworth Matt Schulze Yasmine Delawari Jason Lewis Lindsay Crouse Megan Brown Michael Cole Ross Francis Kit Gwin Marcus Hester Jamie McShane Laura Bailey Jon Paul Burkhart Matthew Posey Brandon Ray Olive Ben Glass Kanin Howell Steve Coulter Stephen Michael Ayers Mark Scarboro Bradley Evans Rommel Sulit Show All…
Vincent Guisetti Steve C. Aaron Jim Fitzpatrick Aleksandr Gruzdev Harrison Meyle Lorita de la Cerna Emile Razpopov Dessie Markovsky Steve Hollenbeck Paul Ordonez
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Legitimately badly directed serial killer thriller that sets up a perverse double life and then basically does nothing with it formally or psychologically in favor of long stretches of Dane Cook as a fanboy who pisses his pants and Demi Moore as the worst detective you've ever seen getting a divorce. Only works in the short bursts of hammed up William Hurt as Costner's hallucinated devil-on-his-shoulder advisor, and a neglected Dexter subplot where his daughter might have inherited his murderous tendencies. Otherwise quite visually bland and overlong, and every time the violence pops up it's done with an awkward flurry of music video flash cuts and awful needle drops. So funny they thought this nothing of a character would be so iconic they planned a trilogy.
Serial killer movies have been done to death in the last ten years. How many different variations of the genre can you do? Bruce A. Evans however had something new to offer and with not one but two Oscar winners on surprisingly good form, this was a little gem from 2007.
Set in Portland, "Mr. Brooks" is a wealthy businessman, husband and father to a teenage daughter. Behind the scenes however he is the "Thumbprint killer", a serial killer who has abstained from murder for the past two years with help from an addiction group. Earl Brooks however is going to return to his killing ways as his alter-ego inside his head played brilliantly by William Hurt urges him to…
A twisty and satisfying thriller about a man and his murderous side, "Mr. Brooks" is a compellingly layered and riveting piece of work. Blending violence, psychological conflict, and a touch of bleak mirth, the Bruce A. Evans-directed drama provides a deliciously and darkly enjoyable experience.
Starring Kevin Costner as a polished everyman whose murderous proclivites are not those of every man, "Mr. Brooks" follows the man and his devilish conscience as the protagonist attempts to leave deadly leanings in the past. Unable to fully leave the world of crime behind, Mr. Brooks takes on a protege who may provide a final escape.
A classic Jekyll and Hyde story bathed in contemporary narrative gloss, "Mr. Brooks" examines the war between urge…
Clever thriller with Kevin Costner playing an unusual role for him - a nice guy with a serial killer id played by William Hurt.
Costner and Hurt’s witty back and forth banter was the best part of the film. They added a great black-comedy element to the twisty narrative.
It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely unique and wholly entertaining!
Whether or not you buy into Mr Brooks all very much depends on if you can believe Kevin Costner as a conflicted serial killer, something of a stretch asked by director Bruce A. Evans in what turns out to be less a psycho drama, more a slightly odd potboiler. It might bill itself as a thriller but there isn't much in the way of tension or indeed excitement across Evans' film, which more than takes its time exploring the titular Earl Brooks and his murderous psychological demons. It's a darker turn for Costner, eschewing the safer or more escapist fayre he's often known for to swim in more sinister waters, but frankly he lacks the thespian nouse to look much…
If you want an idea of the feeling of this film, think American Psycho mixed with the show Dexter.
Great and underrated film. Would have been a lot better without that unnecessary subplot with Demi Moore, but the central story is what it's all about. The story of a man in a war with himself and his inner demons, or demon (William Hurt). Kevin Costner is fantastic and has terrific chemistry with William Hurt, who is just as great. Dane Cook is surprisingly really great and does a nice job balancing his comedic persona with a much darker turn. While her story was pointless and may have made more sense in a separate film, Demi Moore is decent. I mean, she's been a lot worse in past films. A clever script turns out twists you don't expect and web you're waiting on the edge of your seat to see unravel. Pulse punding, gripping, and criminally underseen.
This is one of the best serial killer movies that nobody ever talks about. It's amazing! It has a stellar cast and the story being about a serial killer who wants to stop, who wants to be a good father, and who goes to AA meetings to try and deal with his "addiction" is a unique way to tackle the story. It has intrigue, tension and twists, but it leaves you wondering about how this character will be in the future and how we should even feel for rooting for him. This is a flick that wanted to do something new and interesting with the serial killer genre and it succeeded, but nobody seemed to care back in 2007. It was good then and it still holds up today. If you like the genre, this should be a mandatory viewing experience.
Serial killers are always described as average joes by the people that know them when they eventually get caught. They invariably manage to kill enough people to be classed as serial killers by leading relatively normal lives between killing. Scientific breakthroughs and advances in forensics have now made it harder for killers such as the likes of the Yorkshire Ripper or a Dennis Nilsen type murderer to have a prolonged period of activity. Think about John Wayne Gacy, a pillar of the community, who was an affable friendly individual who killed at least 33 young men and boys in Illinois back in the Seventies, he got away with it for so long because of just that, nobody suspected him of…
My friend Kyleigh since about August has been begging me to watch this, one of her favorite movies. She even left the Blu-Ray for the movie on the doorstep of my girlfriend’s house to make sure I would watch it. It took getting COVID for me to actually sit down and start it up. I felt it would only be fair for me to sit down and write a decent review for Mr. Brooks to make up for pushing it back for so long.
Mr. Brooks seems to be trying so very hard to be about something. The character of Mr. Brooks exclusively murders people while they’re having sex. Why is this? Does it have something to do with the…
I’m not a big fan of Kevin Costner. Because like Matthew McConaughey, he plays pretty much the same character in every movie. But they seem to be really likable actors in person. So while I will say someone has a certain favorite movie of Kevin Costner, my favorite movie is Mr. Brooks from 2007!
Mr. Brooks is about a man who’s a successful businessman by day, but by night his ego changes by becoming a psychopathic murderer. Meanwhile, a detective is on the trail of finding who the killer is, and a blackmailer has the upper hand by demanding the man to be a mentor, or he’ll release the gruesome pictures of his murder.
How can I forget about this…
I don't enjoy killing, Mr. Smith. I do it because I'm addicted to it.
An inverse of White Hunter, Black Heart where I wondered why that was rated so low on here and IMDb, and I'm wondering why this is so highly rated on IMDb in particular, with a 7.3 out of 10. Mr. Brooks feels like it should right on the money for me. I like Kevin Costner, I like William Hurt, I like stories about bad people wrestling with their cruel tendencies, and I can have a particular taste for trashy films in that vein. This is a movie where you get the very small moments of it creeping into something that is fun and a little campy.…