
Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his alter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his... (Full plot summary below)
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Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his alter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her.
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| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffJust when it seemed the serial-killer film had been done to death, Mr. Brooks brings something fresh to the genre. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanA fascinating and thoroughly unsettling exploration into the mind of a serial killer, Mr. Brooks could well be the smartest, most astute thriller of its kind in several years. |
| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Mark PalermoEarl Brooks is presented as an admirable killer, because he's an upperclass, educated white man. |
| Palo Alto WeeklyTyler HanleyWelcome back, Costner. The hit-or-miss actor who earned an Oscar for Dances with Wolves but a Razzie for The Postman shatters expectations with his best performance in more than a decade. |
| Kaplan vs. KaplanJeanne KaplanCostner is sufficiently creepy, yet incredibly down-to-earth as Mr. Brooks. I must say this is one of my favorite performances of his in a very long time. |
| E! OnlineCaroline KepnesThere is some refreshingly good, old-fashioned storytelling in this movie. |
| iF MagazineAbbie BernsteinThe script by Bruce A. Evans, who also directed, and writing partner Raynold Gideon is unusually complex and dense with narrative and character nuances, with such surprises around every corner that we can't wait to see where the next clue is going to lead |
| OhmyNews.comBrian OrndorfIt's an odd piece of entertainment, and requires a viewer flexible enough to journey into the belly of the beast and somehow enjoy it. Me? I found it irresistible at times. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneJeff StricklerMr. Brooks is driven more by its characters than its plot. And several of those characters are fascinating. |
| TheMovieChicks.comCherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann PaloneSmart, funny and wicked... a combination I would pay to see. Mr. Brooks may not want to be bad, but with the devilishly cruel Marshall by his side, he's oh so good at it. |