adonis98-743-186503 Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. If you count out the fact that the practical effects or puppets are horrible with a doll that looks nothing like Val Kilmer or even the over the top death of Christian Slater the film actually has a lot of suspense and good horror elements that work sure it has flaws some of those that i just mentioned or even the killer getting shot multiple times or when you think that the real killer is actually that guy it turns out to be the other way around. But still a pretty good slasher film but in my opinion go check out D-Tox is basically the same movie and it's better than this one in my opinion but still i'll give it a 7.5/10

Devon Elson (absolutetravist) Director Renny Harlin is very much a paracinematic man, and his particular brand of style fits perfectly in the early 2000s aesthetic of excess. High concept thrillers such as Speed rely on an exponentially thrilling pace. Moving the plot along faster than the viewer brain can comprehend the inherent silliness of the core concept.Since Fincher's Se7en, thrillers have taken the macabre turn in the crime genre. Reaching the point of Wan's Saw set within one of those trials of torture. Mindhunters similarly attempts the same zenith, upping Se7en's police duo with a ragtag team of FBI agents, racing to solve an ongoing test of intelligence and insanity. Despite the blatant exposition and character development, none of these people seem smarter than Pitt's hardheaded detective.The agents muster a fun mix of "oh, they've come a long way since" and "oh... who?" Notable entertainers here are Johnny Lee Miller sporting his best Blanche DuBois, Christian Slater and Val Kilmer competing in their natural friendly-yet-suspicious-yet-bored acting styles, and LL Cool J acting as if he was John McClane in yet another preposterous scenario.Attempting to outdo predecessors with 'bigger is better', the story takes place on an isolated island complete with an entire city simulation for a training exercise. According to their teacher, representative of "the mind of a sociopath", presumably not meaning laughably inane and ridiculously convenient for the killer's grand scheme. The film, of course, never slows down to let you question how the entire plot hinges of this arbitrary setting.The script of Mindhunters is definitely where entertainment hinges on as Harlin desperately races ahead of logic and common sense. For such a complex and convoluted mystery build, there are a remarkable number of legitimate plant and pay-offs. Many of them are obvious enough to predict despite the suspension of disbelief being thoroughly tested. Much how Jigsaw relies on sheer chance amidst his philosophical soliloquies, a great number of set-pieces and foreshadowing relies on pure coincidence.The script is constantly testing whether these characters are supposed geniuses outmatched or merely idiots outwitted by another idiot. One particular if insignificant moment of clumsy writing is the repeated mantra of a situation only being secure "on the drive home", the heroes of course proving this right... when boarding a helicopter to safety. Could've easily been fixed for "on the way home" but it doesn't affect the story.In a world of post-modern, meta-narrative ironies, Harlin is successful in his sheer earnestness for pure, dumb, entertainment. For a film about investigative geniuses battling a criminal mastermind, it's best to leave your brain at the door.

SnoopyStyle Jake Harris (Val Kilmer) runs a training program for FBI profilers. It's above and beyond the normal gun training. He takes the team to Oniega Island off the coast of North Carolina to take part in a simulation. Philadelphia P.D. detective Gabe Jensen (LL Cool J) tag along to observe. They are assigned a serial killer called the Puppeteer. However the killings soon become real.It's an Agatha Christie murder mystery crossed with the modern trend of serial killer and FBI profilers. The problem is that it's so completely fake. I'm not saying murder mysteries are always about realism. There is something over the top ridiculous about this that drains the brains out of this thriller. I'm not invested in guessing who is the real killer. It becomes how crazy each perfectly timed kill gets. That has a bit of value but not that much.

Nitzan Havoc I'm much more a Horror fan than a Thriller fan, and Mindhubters was more of a Thriller, but definitely my kind of thriller. Think "Saw" meets "The Bone Collector" with a slight "Along Came the Spider" touch in the end.In general, Mindhunters is just another serial killer film, and yet it's so much more. Firstly, if you've ever taken part in a LARP (live action role play), you'd have to appreciate the set-up of the real time simulation on the island. The suddenly - s*it got real! Secondly, this time the victims weren't a bunch of teens of vacation, and the desolate location wasn't a distant foreign country or a summer cabin in the mountains. This time the victims were FBI agents specializing in profiling, and the location was a remote island use for military and police training. So the killer had to be way smarter than in regular serial killer films. Excellent work by screenwriters Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin!The cast of actors featured some nice long-forgotten surprises, like Christian Slater (bringing all his Interview With a Vampire" charisma) and Val Kilmer (who was excellent as the megalomaniac half-deranged agent in charge of the Profiler training program). Also, Kathryn Morris did a superb job playing the "damsel in distress" of the group, and LL Cool J used all his beloved "gangsta" attitude as the surprise addition to the expedition.The story is clever and compelling, and keeps the audience on edge till the last second. The last 20 minutes are filled with twists, just the way I like it! Imperfect twists, mind you, but clever and well done nonetheless.All in all, an excellent thriller, with a small touch of horror. One of the better thrillers I've seen. Definitely worthwhile and recommended!