Mr. Brooks
The man who has everything has everything to hide.
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Why watch Mr. Brooks
Kevin Costner has never been darker—he plays a seemingly perfect Portland businessman whose mind harbors a second personality that craves murder. William Hurt voices this demonic alter ego with such seductive menace that you'll question every "good guy" performance you've ever trusted. It's a split-psyche thriller that makes American Psycho feel like a warm-up act.
The film moves with the propulsive momentum of prestige cable—think early HBO's True Detective energy but contained within a single, fractured consciousness. Director Bruce A. Brooks keeps you perpetually off-balance, toggling between Costner's buttoned-up facade and the violent fantasies erupting beneath. Demi Moore's detective work adds genuine tension; Dane Cook's supporting turn proves he can do menace.
This is for anyone who binged Dexter and wished the show had leaned harder into philosophical dread rather than procedural comfort. The psychological cat-and-mouse game spirals into genuinely unsettling territory—the kind where you're never sure whose moral compass, if any, points north. You'll leave it unsettled, replaying Costner's smallest tics and wondering how much of his charm was ever real.
— The What2Watch desk · US
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A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
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Hurt and Costner performances are enjoyable and the idea of the movie is good but that's almost all that there is to see. Specially, Moore's story and character are quite expendable, not adding anything to the main story but noise.
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