Kevin costner plays serial killer

Costner laughed: "I really liked 'Waterworld,' and people around the world talk to me about it, 'We even like 'Waterworld. But all those films took a toll on Costner's personal life. In , his first marriage broke up. You can make it X-rated, whatever, it was incredible.

I can conjure it up even now — and my face is as red as your shirt — and as we were flying back she said, 'You know, if we're going to have more weekends, if we're going to have anything, you need to know that children's a big part of what I'm about. Costner is close with his three children from his first marriage; his youngest daughter Lily came to watch him at the golf tournament. His band, Modern West. Costner has recently started performing with some of the same musicians who were in a band he played in when he was younger.

He says he knows that people may be skeptical about his music because he's a movie star. I made up my mind that the music could hold them.

And the more you watch him, the more you begin to realize that whether it's music or movies, Kevin Costner is a born performer. Earl Brooks is a well respected businessman in Portland, Oregon. Seemingly, the biggest issue in his life is the unexpected return of his spoiled daughter, Jane Brooks, from her freshman year in college, she who states she is dropping out but who he knows has another reason for her return.

But the biggest issue in his life is that he is a serial killer, his targets always young couples in the act of making love. He is coined the Thumbprint Killer because he leaves thumbprints of the victims at the scene using their own blood. Earl knows he has a problem, the urge to kill a compulsion. He is constantly being egged on by a voice in his head he calls Marshall, the two who negotiate the murders.

The only thing that he has been able to do to manage his "addiction" as he believes it to be is to attend AA meetings, which resulted in two years between his latest sets of murders. Detective Tracy Atwood is the lead police investigator, she who is going through her own problems. His and his lawyer's contention is that the settlement is for emotional distress due to her job, especially as Thorton Meeks, a violent criminal she put behind bars, has recently escaped, vowing revenge.

As Tracy decides how to handle her divorce which could place her current cases in jeopardy, Earl has his own emerging problems. First, he is being blackmailed by a man calling himself Mr. Smith, who has photographic evidence of Earl being the Thumbprint Killer. Brooks' Mini-Me. Meanwhile, brainy detective Demi Moore tracks the Thumbprint Killer ruthlessly, even as she's being trailed by another serial killer Matt Schulze whom she put behind bars earlier.

He's escaped from prison, and although every cop in town is after him, he has no trouble finding run-down boarding houses to hang out in.

Brooks" needs all that convoluted cat-and-mouse business to distract us from its aggressively dumb plot. Costner seems to be having some fun playing the respectable guy with an evil secret, but Evans' murky storytelling just weighs him down. Cook has all the charisma of a misshapen mud pie, although, sadly, even this schlep of a performance is probably an improvement on his stand-up routine.

Only Moore is unsinkable: Strutting through her scenes in a series of sharply creased trouser suits, she gives the movie its few flashes of pizzazz. By Arthur Spiegelman. Kevin Costner attends the premiere of "Mr. He took the role of businessman Earl Brooks, the hero or villain depending on your point of view of "Mr Brooks," a reworking of both the Hannibal Lecter and Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde sagas which opens on Friday.