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Starring:
Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg
Helgenbe…
Review:
Listen to me: trash can surprise you. So don’t get all elitist
about the so-called cheap thrills in Mr. Brooks. The film,
directed by Bruce A. Evans, who co-wrote the screenplay for
Stand by Me, is out to trigger shocks of recognition.
Kevin Costner is off the hook as Earl Brooks — by day a devoted
husband, father and businessman, by night a serial killer with a
taste for kink. Costner’s career is enjoying a second wind that
started with 2005′s Upside of Anger. Age (he’s fifty-two)
has opened him up more to risk. Not since 1993, when director Clint
Eastwood brought out his dark side in A Perfect World, has
Costner veered so far from the straight and narrow. Depravity
becomes him. You don’t expect raw brutality from a man who prides
himself on his corporate face. Or, as this movie wittily…
Rating: 3 Stars
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