 Mixed reviews are greeting Mr. Brooks, often in the critics' same sentences. For example, Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News calls it "totally absurd and equally entertaining." Susan Walker in the Toronto Star remarks: "Quite a few plot lines and character quandaries remain unresolved. And yet the movie makes sense as it stands." Bob Strauss concludes in the Los Angeles Daily News: "Mr. Brooks may be too much to swallow, but it's a rich feast of perverse delicacies." Richard Roeper confesses in the Chicago Sun-Times: "While acknowledging the plot is often a mess, I have to admit I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish." And Ty Burr observes in the Boston Globe: "There are three movies crammed into this one: The first is good, the second is so bad it's good, and the third is just plain bad. That's still three times the bargain most movies offer." |
