I kind of liked it. I have mixed feelings about this film primarily due to it's predictability, but I must say that I enjoyed it, somewhat. Unlike the majority of film critics, I think I like all of Kevin Costner's movies. Not that they would rank up there in any of my top 100 lists, but I'd watch most of them several times. (Oh, wait a moment, my memory just told me that he once acted as Crash Davis, placing him on one of my top 10 lists.) Even Waterworld and the Postman (which was a decent read) were fairly good to watch, especially while resting in the top rack as the bells and whistles sound, the sailors run amok, and the ship gets underway. (I fear that most of the younger guys have not experinced the shipboard life, some having spent their entire tour in the desert.)
Nevertheless, Mr. Brooks is about a serial killer. Beside him (Costner, the killer that is) throughout most of the movie is another actor (Bill Hurt) who plays the deep, dark thoughts of the killer. A couple of times they share a real good laugh about a killing, or death, which some people will laugh at and others frown. I laughed, and these made the movie for me. Costner plays this part well but I would not want to ruin the film by saying much more. Demi Moore plays a good detective as well; she can work some judo on me if she wants - she needs only to call.
That guy that was the comedy rage for a short while whose name I cannot remember, something like "Clair Danes Cook," is in the movie as well, playing an idiot, which I do not think was difficult for him to do.
A question lingers about a small piece of plastic that is found by CSI at a crime scene. It would seem that firing a pistol from a plastic bag produced a very small piece of plastic at the crime scene. Now, I have watched CSI (the Vegas strip edition not the Florida edition that apparently features that over-acting redhead guy that the midget Stallone whipped up on when he acted as a deputy in Rambo Uno) and I have never seen an example of a small piece of plastic bag falling free in front of a speeding bullet, not to mention not changing its disposition chemically when held tight against a barrel expending energy.
Nevertheless, Mr. Brooks is about a serial killer. Beside him (Costner, the killer that is) throughout most of the movie is another actor (Bill Hurt) who plays the deep, dark thoughts of the killer. A couple of times they share a real good laugh about a killing, or death, which some people will laugh at and others frown. I laughed, and these made the movie for me. Costner plays this part well but I would not want to ruin the film by saying much more. Demi Moore plays a good detective as well; she can work some judo on me if she wants - she needs only to call.
That guy that was the comedy rage for a short while whose name I cannot remember, something like "Clair Danes Cook," is in the movie as well, playing an idiot, which I do not think was difficult for him to do.
A question lingers about a small piece of plastic that is found by CSI at a crime scene. It would seem that firing a pistol from a plastic bag produced a very small piece of plastic at the crime scene. Now, I have watched CSI (the Vegas strip edition not the Florida edition that apparently features that over-acting redhead guy that the midget Stallone whipped up on when he acted as a deputy in Rambo Uno) and I have never seen an example of a small piece of plastic bag falling free in front of a speeding bullet, not to mention not changing its disposition chemically when held tight against a barrel expending energy.
