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There have been few serial killer films this year that warrant a glimpse Perfume, The Story of a Murderer and Zodiac and Behind the Mask are but a few, but with Mr. Brooks serial killers hit back harder then they have in some time. Unlike the cluttered Hannibal Rising, Mr. Brooks is a tour de force of star power that actually get it right for a change.

In a world of privilege and money Mr. Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) has it all, a successful business, a loving wife (Marg Helgenberger), and a beautiful daughter now in college (Danielle Panabaker), but even though he has all that there is one thing he does not have a piece of mind. Deep down inside Mr. Brooks harbors a secret that not even his family knows about he likes to kill people. With the help of his better mental half Marshall (William Hurt), Mr. Brooks is slowly falling apart from lack of a good killing. In order to gain some semblance of self control Brooks decides to fall off the wagon (he goes to meeting to help him get over his "addiction" of killing people as he calls it) and kill a couple he has been eyeing for quite some time because what is killing if you don't have any fun?

Unbeknownst to him that on the night he decides to return to his evil ways, Brooks is caught on film by an amateur photographer, which opens up an all new set on rules. Not only does Brooks have the photographer to worry about but Detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore) is closing in on him now that she has proof that the Thumb Print Murderer is back on the prowl again. Brooks is even more surprised when the photographer (Dane Cook), whom Brooks calls Mr. Smith, turns out to be a serial-killer wannabe and black mails Brooks into taking him out on his next kill. As Brooks tries to fight back the urge to kill again, both Marshall and Smith coax him back into the game claiming its part of his nature and who is he to deny his nature. When his daughter unexpectedly returns home from college with the murder of a fellow student clinging over her head, Brooks begins to worry that he may have passed his extracurricular activities off to her. With this fear comes guilt and with guilt comes mistakes which is all Detective Atwood needs to finally capture him.

Atwood is neither safe either as she is being hunted down by an escaped criminal that she put away and wants to see her dead and an ex-husband who cheated on her and wants a settlement of several millions of dollars from her estate. Atwood is as strong willed as Brooks in this regard.

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