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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 5074
Released: October 23, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Mr. Brooks:
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
The Cast of Mr. Brooks
Kevin Costner | 
William Hurt | 
Demi Moore |
Dane Cook | 
Marg Helgenberger | 
Danielle Panabaker |
Beyond Mr. Brooks
Mr. Brooks on Blu-Ray | 
Mr. Brooks: Music From The Motion Picture | 
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Stills from Mr. Brooks Mr. Brooks Reviews:
Movie like Serial Killer; Can't avoid graphic violence for shock 
2009-10-26 - This could have been a good movie with a fresh look at serial killers and what drives them.
In the end the Director and Producers, like the main character in the movie Mr. Brooks, simply couldn't control themselves and had to butcher humans on screen for shock value.
Hitchcock's lesson remains forgotten; what the mind can imagine is worse than what the Director and special effects can graphically display for you; or at least it use to be.
The second concern that I have with this kind of movie is whether it will inspire a budding killer or train existing killers on better ways to get away with it.
I picked this movie up for a dollar, after watching it in hopes of more clinical tale, I was in the end disappointed. I still hunger for a good movie.
In my climatic ending, the movie was moved from the DVD player and deposited into the garbage bin. It was the waste of my time and mind space acted out as a ritualistic elimination of the DVD, I folded it in half; perhaps acting out aggression learned from the movie. It is unlikely that the remains of the DVD will ever be found at the garbage dump.
This isn't the first DVD I have eliminated; and sadly won't be the last. Before I was the DVD folder, I used a number of ways to get rid of them, sometimes the shredder. I'll have to think of something new for the next bad movie.
Costner should have had enough clout to get all the graphic human butchering out of the movie; or has he too fallen on economic hard times.
Super Movie 
2009-09-13 - Kevin Costner is dark and wonderful in this film. This movie is for you if you like films that make you think.
america's critic
2009-09-11 - a neato serial killer movie this is probably the realistic serial killer movies-- kevin costner was great and dane cook was outstanding this was well put together and should be part of ur dvd collection.
great film 
2009-08-31 - Mr. Brooks is an interesting suspense about a man who takes pleasure in killing other people. Along the way, or rather, after the first killing that we see in the movie, he meets someone who's apparently a photographer.
The guy happened to take a picture of the killer shooting a couple... um... "doing it" in a bedroom. He even positioned the bodies in a sick sexual way after killing them so the cops would see the bodies in that position when they arrived to the scene.
The story gets interesting when the killer meets the guy who snapped the picture of him in the middle of the killing, because it turns out the photographer doesn't have ANY plans to turn the killer in after showing him pictures of the killing he just committed. Instead, the photographer actually wants to go with the killer on his next "kill job".
So the killer and the photographer go around town searching for the next victim. This takes up a good portion of the movie, building suspense the entire time.
This movie is great because it builds suspense and shows you what's it like to get inside the head of someone who has no compassion for human life. The entire film focuses on the killer having a make-believe friend helping to convince him go through with the killings. The invisible friend is just the voice in his head.
Also, the killers daughter plays a big part in the film with some neat twists you won't see coming.
Anyway, when the story gets going, the movie turns into a really solid film overall. I recommend this film to just about anyone interested in violent movies.
Awesomely Diabolical!
2009-08-03 - the story and the acting in this movie are INCREDIBLE! Also, besides being rather original, there's are several INSANE twists along the way that I bet no one would see coming.
