Greenes
Please don't spend money on this.
Erica Derrick
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Frances Chung
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Rickting
Mindhunters is an And Then There Were None type story about FBI trainees trapped on an island where one of them is a serial killer killing the others off in a series of Rube Goldberg machines so ludicrous they make Final Destination look restrained. Mindhunters is not a film you rent for a good time. It's something you rent for a laugh. In that area, it delivers. Don't get me wrong: this is a pretty terrible film. But it is fun. I Love murder mysteries and that automatically makes this watchable, especially as And Then There Were None is one of my favourite books of all time. It's got a good premise and the odd exciting set-piece, as well as some interesting ideas but mainly it gets by on being fun. Eventually the fun wears off during the disappointing finale. The movie does not make a hint of sense, Renny Harlin's misjudged direction makes the film look extremely artificial and over-stylized and the acting is weak as well. At the end of the day, it's a B movie. Mindhunters is sometimes exciting and tense but sadly fails to ever be genuinely scary or make you truly care about its characters. LL Cool J again proves to be a likable presence however. The main fun of Mindhunters is watching the utterly preposterous murder sequences and wondering how such an idiotic script was ever greenlit. It's quite fun and hardly terrible, although an argument that it's particularly good would be hard to construct or justify.4/10
Tss5078
The cast of Mind Hunters is as weird and diverse as any movie can get, but what turned me on to this film was the fact that it was Directed by Renny Harlin. Harlin is a legend in the world of action films, responsible for such films as Die Hard 2, 12 Rounds, & The Long Kiss Goodnight. He usually doesn't waste his time on direct-to-video films, and prefers to feature his own people, but the story here was so good, that he must of made an exception. Mind Hunters follows seven FBI agents who are training to be profilers, under the watch of the toughest trainer there ever was, Jake Harris (Val Kilmer). For their final test, the group goes to a small island the navy uses for training, and must work together in order to catch a serial killer that doesn't exist or do they? Once they begin their investigation, the group quickly come to realize that the scene is booby trapped and they are cut off from the outside world, trapped on an island with a killer. While having a unique location and a terrific director, what I really enjoyed about this film was how it was more than just some slasher film. This group isn't just a bunch of frat girls running from a guy in a hockey mask, they are trained, intelligent, FBI agents, trying to figure out which one of them is responsible for setting the rest up. This film features all the fighting, gun battles, and chases that you get in a typical action thriller, but there is also a methodical obsession among the group to find the one that betrayed them, and for that this film is unique. Kathryn Morris stars and has more than enough experience playing a detective, after sever years on Cold Case. Likewise LL Cool J has played a cop on numerous occasions, most recently on NCIS: Los Angles. Going into the film, I wasn't all that crazy about this cast, but once I got into it, I realized that they were brought together, because all of these guys have plays cops, FBI agents, or some kind of law enforcer in the past. That mix of unique personalities and experience help this film, because what the cast lacks in talent, they make up for with experience. Mind Hunters isn't something you've never seen before, but it brings together several different common themes in a new way and it will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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.
jessegehrig
A review requires a minimum of 10 lines. The maximum is 1,000 words. Man, think of it 1,000 words all to summarize the movie, The Mind Hungers, or Huggers or The Mine Humpers, or whatever the title is, 1,000 words. What do you think most of those words would be? Do you think it would be mostly "the"s or maybe a sh*tload of "ultimately"s ? Seems like a lot of work. Hey, did you see this movie? Did you like it? Do you remember the part when that one guy shoots the rocket launcher at the other guy and he's all like " Yeah! That's for so-and-so!" that part was awesome. Oh or did you see the part when like they all gotta do a spacewalk to escape to the undamaged life-pod, man I didn't think they would ever get there. Go Chiefs!
