In Portland, the philanthropic businessman and family man Mr. Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) has been just elected Man of the Year. Mr. Brooks manages his factory of packages; lives in a comfortable house with his gorgeous wife Emma (Marg Helgenberger) and has a rebel daughter Jane (Danielle Panabaker) in college. However, Mr. Brooks has a dark secret: he is a psychopath serial killer also known as The Fingerprint Killer with an alter-ego called Marshall (William Hurt) and addicted in killing. For two years, Mr. Brooks has attended the AA meetings and kept his addiction under control. However, Marshall returns and forces him to kill a couple of dancers that is making love in their house with open curtains. On the next day, Jane returns home without her BMW and a man named Mr. Smith (Dane Cook) visits Mr. Brooks in his factory with pictures of him in the crime scene; he is blackmailed and the man requests to participate in a murder. Meanwhile, the wealthy detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore) is having a troubled moment in her life: she has been investigating the murders of The Fingerprint Killer; is facing her former husband Jesse Vialo (Jason Lewis) in a complicated divorce process; and is chased by the violent criminal Thorton Meeks (Matt Schulze) that has escaped from prison and promised to kill her. When Tracy visits the crime scene, she suspects that Mr. Smith is an eye witness of the murder and presses him, and their fates entwine with the life of Mr. Brooks.
"Mr. Brooks" is an entertaining psychological thriller where Kevin Costner plays a man with double-life: an entrepreneur recognized by the society and family man and also a clever and Machiavellian serial-killer. William Hurt is great in the role of the alter-ego of Earl. Demi Moore is an abusive detective, but also with good hunches and pressed by her scum ex-husband. And Dane Cook performs an imbecile engineer that aims to fell the adrenaline of killing a person. The plot is developed in an adequate pace, and the flaws and exaggerations are acceptable in this sort of entertainment. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Instinto Secreto" ("Secret Instinct")
"Mr. Brooks" is an entertaining psychological thriller where Kevin Costner plays a man with double-life: an entrepreneur recognized by the society and family man and also a clever and Machiavellian serial-killer. William Hurt is great in the role of the alter-ego of Earl. Demi Moore is an abusive detective, but also with good hunches and pressed by her scum ex-husband. And Dane Cook performs an imbecile engineer that aims to fell the adrenaline of killing a person. The plot is developed in an adequate pace, and the flaws and exaggerations are acceptable in this sort of entertainment. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Instinto Secreto" ("Secret Instinct")