Kevin Costner being a versatile actor as we know him to be makes his new movie look like a child’s play for other actors. Mr. Brooks is about an individual who is a prominent businessman but also has split personality. Now this scenario really gave me a tingle when I read the synopsis behind a DVD cover. I never imagined Costner as a psycho or a being a cold blooded murderer. There was something in the movie that really made him fit into that character. Costner plays Mr. Brooks,a business man who suppresses his split personality for two years until it entices him to do something he vowed not to. His gleefully sadistic alter ego is played by William Hurt, he entices Brooks to do the killing after two years.
After killing Brooks had a habit of getting rid of evidence by burning and cleaning the house of any evidence of his presence. He sets the bodies of his victims in a way that portrays the symbol of love. Also he makes a thumb print using one of the victims thumb on a visible area which got him the name the thumb print killer. Chasing the thumbprint killer is Portland detective Tracy Atwood played by Demi Moore. Atwood is in a personal crisis in this movie, fighting the case of a divorce settlement, one of her captured convicts has escaped and is looking for her and then there is a killer on the loose in Portland.
This movie revolves around three characters; the third is an eye witness that captures the double homicide of the thumb print killer after his two year break. He is a photographer that resides in the opposite building of Brooks’ victims. Atwood knows that the photographer has witnessed the crime but he denies it, but he takes the photos of Brook’s killings to him to do a bargain. The actors are superb in the movie, its almost like the actors were kept in mind when the script of this movie was written. Personall I would rate this movie an 8 out of 10. This movie reminded me of the ’Silence of the Lambs’ series, a serial killer and a cop bent on catching him, but ‘Mr. Brooks’ is no where near the excellence of ‘Silence of the Lambs’.
After killing Brooks had a habit of getting rid of evidence by burning and cleaning the house of any evidence of his presence. He sets the bodies of his victims in a way that portrays the symbol of love. Also he makes a thumb print using one of the victims thumb on a visible area which got him the name the thumb print killer. Chasing the thumbprint killer is Portland detective Tracy Atwood played by Demi Moore. Atwood is in a personal crisis in this movie, fighting the case of a divorce settlement, one of her captured convicts has escaped and is looking for her and then there is a killer on the loose in Portland.
This movie revolves around three characters; the third is an eye witness that captures the double homicide of the thumb print killer after his two year break. He is a photographer that resides in the opposite building of Brooks’ victims. Atwood knows that the photographer has witnessed the crime but he denies it, but he takes the photos of Brook’s killings to him to do a bargain. The actors are superb in the movie, its almost like the actors were kept in mind when the script of this movie was written. Personall I would rate this movie an 8 out of 10. This movie reminded me of the ’Silence of the Lambs’ series, a serial killer and a cop bent on catching him, but ‘Mr. Brooks’ is no where near the excellence of ‘Silence of the Lambs’.
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