Mr. Brooks

Mr. Brooks proves to us that people aren't want they seem. Sometimes those who seem to have the most, have the biggest things to hide. Ear Brooks (Kevin Costner) seems to have everything going for him. A loving wife, (Marg Helgenberger), an articulate daughter, Jane (Danielle Panabaker), and a successful career as a business man. As a matter of fact, the model citizen Mr. Brooks has just been named "Man of the Year" in Portland. What he also has is schizophrenia. A mental disorder that has caused him to be a mastermind killer for several years. It becomes evident that Mr. Brooks is lead by his alter ego that only he can see, Marshal (William Hurt). He's Brooks' partner in crime. Brooks has gone while with out murdering but is soon unable to curb his appetite. The very night he wins Portland's "Man of the Year" award is the night he decides to murder again. This time, it's different, Mr. Brooks is usually meticulous enough to cover his tracks that even the best can not trace him to the crime. This time, He gets caught by a young backwards man, Mr. Smith (Dane Cook). Mr. Smith agrees not to turn in Mr. Brooks on the basis that he allows him to help him murder his next victim. This murder has the city in an uproar and the best detective, Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore) is put on the case.

You would think having a credible eye witness, ready to throw you under the bus at any moment, and having one of the states top blood hound detectives on you would be the worst of your Mr. Brooks problems, but it is late in the film we realize it's not. When murders pop up around Jane (Brooks' daughters) campus, the evidence is so mounding that Brooks cannot deny that these murders were in fact, his daughters doings. It is now he begins to realize that she also suffers from the same mental illness of schizophrenia that he does.

In the end, Brooks is clever enough to escape the detective, and kill the Mr. Smith. He is also about to clear his daughter of the suspicion of the murders she committed at her college campus, but what he can't escape is the fact that his own daughter suffers from an awful illness she inherited from her father.

I personally enjoyed this film, but I would enjoy almost anything with Costner (as he's one of my favorites). I would recommend it, it's a great thriller film and it keeps you on your toes.