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MINDHUNTERS Send This Review to a Friend
The mystery-horror film “Mindhunters” certainly isn’t hunting for anyone with minds.
It is so dumb and silly that anyone with a modicum of intelligence isn’t likely to want to get anywhere near it. The title refers to the training of FBI agents to get inside the heads of weirdo murderers. But there is a murderer among them, and in the pattern of “Ten Little Indians,” one by one they get gruesomely knocked off as they go through their exercise on a remote island.
The contingent is dispatched to a strange locale by the chief, played by Val Kilmer, who gets out of the way quickly. The cast includes Christian Slater, James Todd Smith, otherwise known as LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Kathryn Morris, Patricia Velasquez, Clifton Collins, Jr., Eion Bailey and Will Kemp.
None of the characters is in the least bit interesting. Is this what the FBI ranks are like? Director Renny Harlin concentrates on trying to build suspense to see who’ll die next and how it will happen. The methods are hi-tech versions of Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. But the whole tone of the film is so blah that one can be bored out of one’s mind watching “Mindhunters.” A Dimension Films release.
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