Mr. Brooks -
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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). 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.
Movie information
| Release Date (USA): | 2007-06-01 |
| Rating (USA): | R |
| Release Date (UK): | TBA |
| Rating (UK) : | NA |
| Director: | Raynold Gideon |
| Producer: | Jim Wilson;Kevin Costner;Raynold Gideon |
| Studio: | MGM/United Artists |
| Writer/s: | Bruce A. Evans;Raynold Gideon |
Cast
| Kevin Costner | Mr. Brooks |
| Demi Moore | Tracy Atwood |
| Dane Cook | Mr. Smith |
| William Hurt | Marshall |
| Marg Helgenberger | Emma Brooks |
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Talkback
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a BIG P U!
PEEEEEE UUUUUUU!
What a waste of $18 and 2:45 hours of my life.
Wait for it to go on video.
It's like they took every suspense film and copied one unique thing from it to make a whole bunch of crap.
And they tease us with a sequel.
But I'm sure it will be a hit because people like GARBAGE~
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Bob LJun 2nd, 2007 - 17:24:46
A tremendous movie, all things considered. Maybe Costner's finest performance as he shows nuances I've never seen from him in facial expressions, words, and acting. However, William Hurt is a scene stealer as Brooks' alter ego and his mannerisms are brilliantly on point as they almost always are.
Helgenberger plays a mom most people wish they had. Panabakre plays the cunning but brattish daughter. Dane Cook is believable and well played. Demi Moore struts ehr stuff somewhat like in Disclosure, and yet you feel a sympathy for her because of her jerko husband and his lawyer.
The plot moves forward most of the time. But it is the story and Costner's insidious planning of events (which are calculatable--at least they were for me) that make everything spooky... and shows the 'amateurs' they were never in his league.
There is some good humor and some of the best moments are when Earl and Marshall are laughing together.
The audience I was with seemed to love it.
I'd give it an A-
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