Mr. Brooks (2007)

This Movie Is About a man named Mr. Brooks (Kevin Costner) and no, he doesn't have gills. Okay, so Mr. Brooks is a lovely man with a lovely family and he even volunteers to clean up at the AA meetings. What is he at AA for. you might ask. Well, you see, Mr. Brooks sufferes from what we call an addiction to killing people and posing them in compromising positions after he shoots them and then takes pictures of them. And just for good measure, he puts their finger prints, in blood, around the room. This might seem like a problem for any family man to face, but Mr. Brooks is very smart. He does run a boxing company after all. Which is a company that makes boxes, if you were confused. So after one of this rauncy murder escapades, he gets a visit from Mr. Smith (Dane Cook) who has photographs of Mr. Brooks after he offed the couple. He doesn't want to turn him in though, no no no, he wants Mr. Brooks to take him on the next killing for the thrill, you see. The stereotypicaly detective is played by Demi Moore as Detective Atwood. So the stage is set and there if no one you can trust, not even your own family.

You Should Watch This Movie Becausethere is nothing wrong with it. Now, many of you would disagree and I will be probably getting a lot of hate mail for saying something like this. But let me explain. When I say that there is nothing wrong with this film means that there are no glaring plot holes or things that don't make sense. Having said that, this film is so focused on not making any mistakes that it really doesn't go anywhere or do anything. But a positive is a positive. At least, if you watch this movie, you won't be pulling your hair out because of the story.

What's Hot: It was a decent attempt to try to bring together story lines that didn't really fit together. They did try though. And trying is always worth noting. You can probably tell that I'm struggling for positives because I am. There just really wasn't that many positives in this film. I mean, it doesn't do anything spectacular but at the same time it doesn't do anything at all! So I guess what's hot is the knowledge that movies with no substance can still be made which is a positive for any aspiring screen writer.

What's Not Hot: Pretty much everything else in this movie. One example, if you guys need it. Is Atwood's story line. She's investigating this case, yeah? So you think that she would investigate this case and it would bring about some change in her personal life or whatever. But they decided to do something slightly different and bring back a dude from her old case who's out to get her. Which has nothing to do with the case that she's solving right now, by the way. I don't understand how this decision could have gotten through the story editors but it somehow did which makes me feel sad and yet thankful because I will strive to be a better story editor than this.

Breaking It Down:
Story: Fail
Direction:6.0 (Bruce A. Evans)
Acting: 7.0
Cinematography: 7.0
Music/Sound: 6.0

Entertainment Value: Fail (not an average)