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Mindhunters, 2004

Starring: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J

Directed by: Renny Harlin

Written by: Kevin Brodbin

Language: English

Country: USA, Netherlands, UK, Finland

Runtime: 106 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.2

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The mood of Mindhunters is suspenseful, atmospheric, and scary. The plot centers around special agents, mind games, and a whodunit. It is a thriller, drama, and action movie. Stylistically, Mindhunters involves twists and turns and is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, on an island. Mindhunters happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for a boys' night.

Summary of Mindhunters

The profilers become the profiled in this SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets TEN LITTLE INDIANS action thriller. Val Kilmer plays the trainer at the FBI's serial-killer-profiling school; he sets up elaborate field games based on previous cases and the students have to crawl inside the minds of these twisted killers while avoiding getting killed or going nuts in the process. The characters include a guy in a wheelchair (Clifton Collins Jr.), a mysterious Philadelphia detective (LL Cool J), a tough Latina babe (Patricia Velasquez), and a girl with a head for math (Kathryn Morris), among others. Christian Slater plays the leader. For a final test, the group has to spend the weekend at a remote Carolina island and develop a profile of the Puppeteer (he strings people up with hooks from the ceiling so they look like marionettes), a fictional killer created by their genius teacher. However, the class hardly even gets to exposit their background stories before the deadly traps start flying... for real. The killer sets watches for the exact moment when the next death will occur. And since it's a military training island, target practice dummies pop up all over the the full-scale model town to keep things jumping. Director Renny Harlin pumps the film full of adrenaline, and LL Cool J gets to show off his incredible arm strength when he has to swing from pipe to pipe over electrified water in a flooding basement--watch for the great underwater climax. As if that wasn't enough, there are also acid, maggots, arrows, explosions, gas, lots of dominos, ticking timers, and shouting. As the body count rises, everyone takes a turn at being a suspect, and a deadly process of elimination seems to be the only reliable tactic for finding the killer.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA, Netherlands, UK, Finland
Release date:	13 May 2005
Runtime:	106 min

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Val Kilmer

as Jake Harris

LL Cool J

as Gabe Jensen

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Entertainment Weekly

What does satisfy is the pleasantly becalming presence of "Deep" costar LL Cool J. He's fast becoming Liv Ullmann to Harlin's Bergman. Full Review

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by: Scott Brown

The Hollywood Reporter

Director Renny Harlin's take on Agatha Christie's versatile "Ten Little Indians" is total B-movie swagger in all its unsubtle glory. Full Review

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by: Michael Rechtshaffen

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09.October.2009
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by: Ethan Clapham
Ethan Clapham rated this movie0/10

Mindhunters is dumb. Thats the first word that comes to mind to describe this movie. I could say a lot of other things, but the movie is just dumb. Dont waste your time. I mean, come on. FBI profilers secluded on a remote island for a training program discover that someone is setting traps and killing them. Mysteriously, they have no contact with the rest of the world. No radios, no working cell phones, nothing. Because thats how the real world works. Im sure the FBI drops off its recruits with no means of communication whatsoever, because accidents never happen. Not in the FBI. When the movie fails that early on, its tempting to just hit the stop button and move on. But Im a glutton for punishment. Directed by Renny Harlin and starring Christian Slater, LL Cool J, and Val Kilmer, Mindhunters at least had some potential to be enjoyable. None of these Hollywood names are anywhere near talented (well, Val Kilmer on a good day, maybe) but they at least make some fun movies. Mindhunters was anything but fun. The entire production felt like a made-for-TV movie. And that is most definitely a bad thing. The plot was tedious, moving through each character and making sure the audience realized that the killer could be any of them. Give the viewer a clue, then render in completely irrelevant with the next scene. Assume you audience has the mentality of three year-olds. Make sure that the characters are a sampling of the dumbest FBI agents ever imagined, even though theyre supposed to be the best and the brightest. And when you have all that right, your audience just wont care. By the end of the movie, I just wanted the finale to be over, the killer to be revealed, and the credits to roll so I could move on with my life. Ive sat through this much, I may as well finish it.

09.October.2009
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by: Ethan Clapham

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