The Tragedy Of Hamlet / Brook By Brook (DVD)

Brooks by day, killer by night!

Advantages: Great film all round
Disadvantages: Complex plot twists in abundance

When people think of Kevin Costner and his films, you can be pretty sure they're thinking of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, or the flop Waterworld, or his critically acclaimed roles in JFK or Dances With Wolves or the smash hit The Bodyguard. Costner has hit it as a screen legend, but of late he hasn't been as hot in terms of publicity. This surprises me, as two of his more recent roles I consider to be possibly his best. The first is his role as a drifter in the cult western film Open Range. The second is here, as the obsessive serial killer Mr Brooks. Costner seems to excel at the more artistic films that don't hit the screens in such a big way. Mr Brooks is a highly entertaining and well worked thriller directed by Bruce A Evans and starring Costner alongside some other eyebrow raising names such as Demi Moore, William Hurt and CSI ...

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Review of Mr. Brooks (DVD)

Killing by the Brooks

Advantages: Dane Cook shows he may have range and William Hurt is very good.
Disadvantages: Poor writing and direction that leads to an absence of tension.

Mr Brooks is a successful businessman and devoted husband and father. But unbeknownst to anyone else, he's also a prolific serial killer and one who is so good that he's never been caught. He's tried desperately to control his urges and the sardonic alter-ego he calls Marshall. But when he gives into temptation he's caught on film by a creepy peeping Tom. The next thing he knows, he's tangled up in the twisted agenda of the opportunistic bystander and they are both being hunted by tenacious detective Tracy Atwood. Can Mr Brooks keep his secret under wraps, or will he be exposed to his wife and daughter? This is Bruce A Evans' second feature as director in fifteen years (after the forgettable Christian Slater vehicle "Kuffs") and his inexperience shows. It should be a serial killer movie with a strangely sympathetic anti-hero. But ...

afy9mab 24.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Mr. Brooks (DVD)

Brooke

Advantages: Great plot, gripping
Disadvantages: Ghost writer, Short

a course which would map out the rest of her life as an author. Before her passing in 1986 caused by breast cancer she wrote eight books including the imfamous 'Flowers in the attic'. With hundreds of more ideas penned, the family members left behind sort and found Andrew Neiderman who was to become her ghost writer. He now uses her short stories and makes them into a novel which is then published under her name. In 1998 the five books of the Orphan series was published. Like most others made the idea is four separate storys which somehow come together to create the fifth, In this instance the books in order were to be named Crystal, Butterfly, Brooke, Raven and finally Runaways. Plot At the tender age of two Brooke Okun is abandoned by her mother and is left with only a faded pink ribbon to remember her. This allows Brooke ...

ovetta2001 06.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Brooke - Virginia Andrews