Review of Mr. Brooks (2007) by Sarah S — 27 Aug 2012

Very dark filled with lots of thriller moments!

This review of Mr. Brooks (2007) was written by Sarah S on 27 Aug 2012.

Mr. Brooks has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Mr. Brooks

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Micah S (134) on 15 Nov 2017

Costner's finest performance…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Michael (314) on 26 Jan 2016

Unbelievably deep performances from an all-star cast! I missed it in the theaters and only watched it because there was nothing else on…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 Feb 2016

Mr. Brooks manages to be deeply loathsome -- no small feat for a film that's shallowly amateurish…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 15 Nov 2015

A werewolf movie masquerading as a thriller, it looks like a canny attempt by Bruce A…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Mary B (451) on 23 Aug 2017

Seen it more than once. Good suspense and twists…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Nick R (843) on 28 Sep 2018

Mr. Brooks took me by surprise. Mr…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Dana P (89) on 04 Nov 2018

Interesting movie, but it was never explained why Mr. Brooks was so convinced his daughter was a murderer after the police interview…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 29 Dec 2016

The movie becomes a crazy quilt of competing stories, none of them properly developed. You could cut half the major characters out of Mr…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Ripcord33 (8) on 10 Apr 2021

Factual errors When Mr. Brooks is reading the paper, the first page contains the story of Meeks's murder-suicide…

Read Review

Review of Mr. Brooks (2007)

By Suzan W (12) on 04 Mar 2017

This is the most horrible movie I think I've seen despite the fact that they got Kevin Costner and Demi Moore to act in it…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 07 Feb 2000

You want REAL terror…

Read Review

Review of I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

By Heyitsmegrif4 (255) on 23 Dec 2011

Weak on performances, weak on thrills, weak on dialogue and it isn't even unintentionally funny…

Read Review

Review of The Kingdom (2007)

By Apocalypsebrown (13) on 03 Oct 2007

An insult to all Saudis, whilst its shameless propaganda against the East. AGAIN! I wonder why they are no films about Israel and the U.S…

Read Review

Review of Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

By Andrew Sarris (502) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Dec 2004

Murder on the Orient Express falls down so badly as escapist entertainment that it is as if it were designed to prove the proposition that…

Read Review

Review of Jakarta (1988)

By Shawn W (1,705) on 23 May 2017

Former CIA agent is abducted and taken back to Jakarta and is submersed into a drug conspiracy with a thought-dead former girlfriend…

Read Review

Review of Innuendo (2017)

By Erin Free (200) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 30 Oct 2017

Innuendo wears its influences proudly and with reckless abandon, but always functions as an engagingly original film in its own right…

Read Review

Review of Visitor Q (2001)

By Justin H (801) on 28 Apr 2012

Wretched. Nonsensical. I didn't care what was happening onscreen. Don't even waste your time…

Read Review

Review of Alleluia (2014)

By Simon Abrams (730) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Jul 2015

Oppressively bleak mood piece Alléluia is a horror film for people who like to be scared by a grim, joyless and thoroughly depressing character…

Read Review

Review of Trauma Center (2019)

By Junacrawford (1) on 15 Jan 2022

What an unfaithful,awful adaptation of the video game series. So disrespectful to the series it's actually unbelievable…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Hereditary

2018

72%1,650 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Love

2015

54%174 Reviews

The Menu

2022

70%145 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Mr. Brooks

2007

69%850 Reviews

A Little Romance

1979

70%86 Reviews

Made for Each Other

1939

61%29 Reviews

The Informant

2008

57%690 Reviews

Borderline

2008

65%72 Reviews

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

66%1,081 Reviews

10 Cloverfield Lane

2016

74%1,251 Reviews

Renfield

2023

61%100 Reviews

Memento

2000

86%1,038 Reviews

Jolene

2010

54%67 Reviews