Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

fredtee Very, very entertaining.A primer on how to commit a murder and get away with it...with meticulous planning and execution.Mr Brooks uses the vacuum cleaner in the house where he commits the murder. And a plastic bag to collect the gunpowder. He also removes the bullets from his victims.Also a primer on how to blackmail should you witness and have evidence of a murder.Killing with an axe, guns, a shovel, a pair of sciccors; its all here. All in good spirit, all in "fun."Kevin Costner's acting is the very best he's done; he is so convincing that I now suspect a few suave and debonair people I know from my personal life to be serial killers.I even like Demi Moore as the cop with the great hunches and the world's fastest reflexes, but always a few steps behind Mr. Brooks' murders. Worth $60 million with a father who thought she should have been born a son. You'd figure she can afford a sex change operation. Is that why she only wears pants, never a skirt to show off her legs?Then there is Mr. Brooks' daughter. He loves her enough to kill for her, she loves him enough to kill him. Now, there is a REAL dynamic duo. ---------------------------------------- There are plot problems, of course. Mr. Smith is charged with the serial killer murders because he urinates on the floor, leaving his DNA. After all his meticulous cleanup, why would the killer now leave urine at the crime scene??Mr Smith gets caught with his gun whose firing pin has been disabled by Mr. Brooks. Would you not figure Mr. Smith might have checked his gun prior to leaving his apartment, recognizing who he is dealing with? (Mr. Brooks had surreptitiously entered Mr. Smith's apartment on a previous occasion to get an imprint of the safety deposit box where Mr. Smith is thought to have kept the original photos and digital camera card of a double murder).

leplatypus I put this movie in the bin along Crash, Irresistible, Hannibal because i just blame the efforts and dedication to put inhuman, horrible violence and pain into an art object! Those movies prove that there's something wicked in our societies, a sort of dark cancer that kills our most positive and beautiful things! So here we are the voyeur of a serial killer and as the bad Beautiful Mind, it's suggested that he is not that responsible as he is managed by a vicious buddy! Things got really worse as he must become the mentor of his blackmailer and also because his madness is hereditary! For one time, we have the usual Clichés of the American movie torn in a different light (the wealthy boss, the happy family) but maybe what makes the difference here is the quality of the cast: Costner the good guy by excellence is excellent as well as Hurt (he looks like the Yellow bastard from Sin City), as Moore (even if always cold, athletic, tough) with a special mention for Dane Cook, the could be son of Fletch who adds here to his cool attitude a real ability for drama too!

beccabentley I had seen this movie recommended somewhere and was surprised I had never heard of it. I had high hopes especially as there are some good actors in it. However, by the time it finished I was sadly disappointed. Kevin Costner seemed to just be reciting his lines rather than acting most of the time. He was the blandest serial killer I have ever seen. Perhaps he thought that he was being meditative or deep in some way or perhaps he was trying (and falling far short) to be a bit like Christian Bale's character in American psycho. He just came across as wooden. I really didn't see the point of William Hurt. If he had been a bigger contrast with Kevin Costner, then I would have understood him being an outward sign of his inner devil. However, instead of Jekyll and Hyde, you just got Bland and Blander! Because of this, the whole thing did not work for me. Hurt was like a spare and unnecessary part hulking about the place. POTENTIAL SPOILER HERE - And then supposedly finding out that his daughter was also a killer just fell flat. He didn't even have any evidence that she truly was and neither did the viewer. We never saw her alleged kill happen or even see Costner's murder to try and cover it up/provide her with an alibi! And, except for the sequence at the end when she turned on him, she never showed any signs at all of having that kind of psyche herself (and he didn't even challenge her or speak to her about it! Though he was happy to speak to the complete stranger "Mr Smith" about what it was like to plan to kill someone!) And then even the sequence at the end was all just a dream!? This spoiled a last twist that I had finally quite liked! His daughter was another character that just came across as slightly bored all the time. I did quite like Demi Moore's character but only because she came across with a bit more spark (which wasn't hard!). And it was just freakish and unbelievable that, not only was Kevin Costner's daughter a would be serial killer, but so was the peeping Tom in the flats across the way that saw Costner commit murder! Wow, this kind of thing was contagious! The writers even inexplicably felt the need to throw in another serial killer called "The Hangman" and his psycho girlfriend. The film just lost all plausibility and sense (especially when Demi Moore's serious head wound miraculously healed up without a trace!) I would not recommend it to anyone. If you want to watch Costner in a more recent film that is actually entertaining, watch 3 days to kill.

rahulgalgali08 To be honest I decided to watch movie because I had nothing to do. But as movie start picking up the story it gets exciting. This is all together whole new concept of serial killer. Mr.Kevin has done excellent job so is director. The best part of the movie was less blood shed , as we know most of the serial killer movies gets dirty all the time. Demi Moore has done excellent job and the way police investigate is very realistic. Although she was not sure about serial killer but her basic instincts about finding out the photographer was brilliantly shown. All together this is good movie with dark humor , nicely scripted story and excellent acting by Kevin and other crew. I would love to see some more movies like this in future.