Mr. Brooks
I had heard almost nothing about this film going in. Maybe I don't watch enough TV, maybe I don't go to the right movies to see trailers for it. I don't know what it is, but I hadn't seen any preview. The only way I even knew it existed was searching through what was playing at the local theatres. And I'm glad that I did that. This was a very high quality psychological thriller. I don't want to give too much of it away, but it was well acted (even by Dane Cook, who thought I'd ever say that!), well written, and well directed. And it didn't fall prey to the trap of most thrillers where they throw in so many twists at the end that they are just hoping you will get too confused to realize that with all the twists, the first 90 mins of the film no longer make any sense. And to top it all off, while it is still just a movie, it is one of the more realistically plausable thrillers I've seen. All in all it was one of the higher highlights of my mass collection of movies I've seen recently.
RATING: Worth Full Price At Just About Any Theatre, Worth a High Netflix Rental