Mr. Brooks Release Date: June 1, 2007 Studio: MGM Director: Bruce A. Evans
Screenwriter: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon Starring: Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, Marg Helgenberger Genre: Thriller MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, nudity and language) Official Website: TheresSomethingAboutMrBrooks.com | MySpace.com/MrBrooksmovie
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All human beings...are commingled out of good and evil." -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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 an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him -- until now.
Academy Award winner Kevin Costner stars as Earl Brooks, a man who has managed to keep his two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall (Academy Award winner William Hurt) whom he blames for his wrongdoings. But now, as Mr. Brooks succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer (Dane Cook) witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in the dark agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore). Can Mr. Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double life from his wife (Marg Helgenberger) and daughter (Danielle Panabaker) or will someone expose his crimes and his identity once and for all in this unpredictable and electrifying new thriller.
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Overdesigned
characters and situations stretch plausibility at every turn.
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
Pushing coincidence and exaggeration to the point of near comic absurdity, "Mr.
Brooks" begins as a steely cool examination of an unlikely serial
killer, but it quickly tumbles off that edge into a quagmire of plot
gimmicks and writer's tricks.
Unholy mess.
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
Costner plays it straight and William Hurt—as, I’m
not kidding, the devil that hisses in his ear that it’s time
to kill again—provides a welcome shot of camp. If the movie
were just these two, bopping around arguing and offing people,
it would have been better than the unholy mess it turns into.
Rating: FRESH (3/4)
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews
Exquisitely constructed, Mr. Brooks is a gorgeous and compelling
thriller about a very sympathetic serial killer. ... The story
unfolds with the delicious pacing of a carefully prepared feast.
Kevin Costner has stepped into a great villainous role.
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com
Costner’s best performance ever! An intelligent, terrific
thriller with twists and kinky characters. Costner and Hurt are
a sensational team.
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