When I know I'm going to be reviewing a movie I never read other reviews, so I can come my own opinions with fresh eyes. But after I've written and sent in my piece I do like to get an idea of what other critics are saying - a check to see if I've strayed from critical orthodoxy, if you will.
To my surprise I enjoyed Mr. Brooks because it stayed away from so many tired cliches of serial killing in films and novels. Mr. Brooks doesn't have a dank dungeon where he salivates over his conquests; he wasn't (as far as we know) abused as a child and he doesn't irrationally hate women. This isn't a perfect movie. We didn't need to spend so much time on the divorce of Demi Moore's character and I'm not sure whether the performance of Dane Cook was good acting or art imitating life.
Critics are split down the middle on Mr. Brooks, it has a 54% score on Rotten Tomatoes as I write this. I'm wondering if I gave too much weight to the original (if a tad unlikely) premise and not enough to how the story was told.
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