Costner's a killing machine

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Costner is Earl Brooks, an award-winning businessman with a loving and attractive wife (Marg Helgenberger) and a devoted if difficult daughter (Danielle Panabaker). He appears to have it all - but secretly goes to an addicts' circle to prevent his addiction to killing surfacing again. He has succeeded in staving his desire to slay for a while, until Hurt's ghostly devil persuades him to do one last killing.

He shoots two lovers having sex in their apartment but as he goes to the window to draw the curtains, he is photographed by a Peeping Tom neighbour (Dane Cook), who subsequently blackmails Brooks into taking him along on another deadly mission.

Added to this rather unlikely scenario is a police detective (Demi Moore) who is having a bad divorce and is being chased by a second killer whom she had put away. To cap it all, there's a murder at his daughter's school which looks as if it might have been committed by the girl herself.

If this all seems rather far-fetched, it should be added that 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. One gets the feeling that parts of it are supposed to make you smile. If so, the humour appears more than a little twisted.

Mr Brooks
Cert: 18