Just watched it. It had been on my watchlist for years. should have watched it sooner, it kicks ass!

Kevin Costner plays an upstanding member of the community, avid potter and caring father who happens to moonlight as a schizophrenic serial killer. Costner is fine in the role but Demi Moore, who surfaces as the tomboy detective on his trail, is badly miscast. She's presented as a grizzled veteran of the force with several shades of action hero, but when we see the character in motion it's an awkward, stiff, uncomfortable exercise. Dane Cook is bafflingly tossed into the mix, too, as a wannabe killer who blackmails his way into private lessons with the master. The curious decision to take a serious role does him no favors.

There's some promise to the concept, but the script simply doesn't trust its viewers to work things out for themselves and delights in presenting, then abandoning, boatloads of trivial plot threads. Clearly written with a franchise in mind, it saves too much meat for later installments, which leaves this first chapter feeling thin and watered-down. Hammy, forced and predictable, with a fistful of groan-worthy clichés, it's akin to a bad season of Dexter.

How did they manage to make this idea so boring and cliché?

Surprisingly intense thriller with a standout performance by Demi Moore. Kevin Costner has the more showy role, to be sure, but Demi steals her scenes IMHO. William Hurt is the proper amount of creepy which I think foreshadows his work later on "Goliath." I hear they were thinking this could have been a trilogy and while I'm curious where that would have gone, I think it is better here as a one off. The less said about Dane Cook, the better.

Couldn't believe I didn't know about this Kevin Costner movie before. Has been on my watchlist for awhile and just found it again today and watched it. Even though it isn't his usual type of character to play, he was still excellent in the role.

Still a great film from Kevin Costner XD

Dane Cook was not a good casting call

Just randomly had _Mr. Brooks_ on Flix channel; 2007, 10 years, title and premise seems alright so I thought I'd check it out. Decent cast; I recognized Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, and Danielle Panabaker who plays Killer Frost in _The Flash_.
But for me, the real star was the **Nokia 9300 Communicator**.

Kevin is good in it and it's not a bad story to a point, that's about the extent of it. Demi Moore is not good.

Kevin Costner plays a "cold as ice" schizophrenic psychopathic serial
killer Earl Brooks in this intriguing thriller. It is several stories
wrapped into one. The story of the main character who has an invisible
"friend" who talks him into killing people.Then you have an insane
photographer who is blackmailing Mr. Brooks into letting him tag along
to watch a killing up close. Demi Moore plays a"bad ass" cop who became
a cop to prove herself to her uber rich father. Then there is an
escaped con who has it in for Demi & is completely out of his mind
wanting to get revenge for her putting him in prison. After all of that
Mr. Brooks has to cover up a murder his daughter committed in college.
After all of this you have a lot of blood, a lot of killing, a lot of
intrigue & a lot of creepy fun. There are even a few laughs along the
way. I rate it a 4/5 or 8/10

This had the potential to be a fantastic money making machine of a tv-series. Just saying.

Very interesting movie . I realy like to see the position of the killer, no just a shadow that kills people , but the hole life behind his actions.

Not a bad start but mehhhhhhh

This idea is so unique and clever. Yes, there are several long parts and Demi Moores Plotline is just okay. But the chemistry between Marshal and Brooks makes the movie work!