It’s oddly entertaining, as long as you lower your threshold of disbelief ...

| Feb 8, 2025

Brooks is ultimately even scarier because his family life - or the facade behind which he hides - is so incredibly normal.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 27, 2020

While Costner does his part, ultimately "Brooks" fails -- with a convoluted plot that seems more preposterous the more you think about it.

| Nov 21, 2019

However hellish Brooks' acts might be, we admire how coolly he executes them. So rather than wish jail or worse on Mr. Brooks, the audience joins him in reveling in how neatly he disposes of his victims. Hollywood is, after all, so good at what it does.

| Oct 16, 2018

A big-budget psycho-thriller that lets two of our more "sedate" leading men cut loose with some entertainingly juicy performances.

| Aug 28, 2015

It's not that Costner is a bad actor. He's just a one-note actor... like a male Julia Roberts. And this just isn't his note.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 27, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

The good news: there are many twists, turns, subplots and surprises that the coming attractions don't even hint at. The bad news: these twists and turns are so preposterous, or so irrelevant, that they undermine the movie they're meant to tart up.

| Apr 7, 2008

A dinmica entre Hurt e Costner carrega Instinto Secreto: exibindo uma imensa qumica em suas cenas, os dois atores estabelecem um sentimento misto de tenso e camaradagem entre seus personagens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2008

Initial promise drowns in a tide of subplot complications in this sometimes slick and supremely nihilistic murder thriller which attempts to inject life into Kevin Costner by making him a bad guy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2007

The audience is apt to forget its own vicarious indulgence in some fairly perverse, psychologically unhinged acted out fantasy, as Kevin Costner masterminds erotically tinged guilty pleasures.

| Oct 27, 2007

Costner gives a nicely underplayed performance and the film is well enough made to be watchable, if only to find out what enormity will be perpetrated next, and by whom.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Costner's double-act with Hurt is a wicked pleasure, like The Odd Couple with a psychopathic twist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Kevin Costner as a schizophrenic serial killer? Demi Moore as a hardboiled police detective? No, we don't think so.

| Oct 12, 2007

It does keep you guessing until the end, but Mr Brooks turns out to be Mr Average after all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2007

There's enough ambition for a miniseries here, and satellite viewers already have the rather terrific Dexter. Stuffed into two hours, it's all a bit of a pile-up.

| Oct 12, 2007

If you can stomach the psychological codswallop of a serial killer keeping the demons at bay via Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, it may well be possible to enjoy this taut-ish thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 12, 2007

There's plenty to recommend this old-fashioned serial-killer flick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2007

With a terrific cast and a superb script, this is a hugely enjoyable suspense thriller of the sort that they really don't make anymore.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2007