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Mindhunters

2004 · United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland - Renny Harlin

The titular Mindhunters are a group of young FBI students who are undergoing training as profilers. They are tasked by their instructor Jake Harris (Val Kilmer) to travel to a small island off the coast of Virginia. This island is used as a training facility by the FBI and the military, and a mock town has been constructed there. Harris has arranged an elaborate training scenario for his students; they are to create a profile of a serial killer who has committed a murder there.

Genres:

Thriller, Crime, Horror, Action, Mystery, Adventure

Release date:

2004-03-19

External links:

Mindhunters at IMDB Mindhunters at Wikipedia

  1. Rotten Tomatoes

    20 Critic reviews

    25% 61%

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      Detroit Free Press

      May 21, 2005 read full article

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      Dallas Morning News

      May 21, 2005 read full article

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      Robert Denerstein

      Denver Rocky Mountain News

      May 21, 2005 read full article

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      Richard Roeper

      Ebert & Roeper

      It was supposed to open in the spring of 2003, but they kept pushing back the release date. They should have kept pushing.

      May 16, 2005 read full article

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      Stephen Hunter

      Washington Post

      Evidently, these young FBI geniuses were just on a collective undercover assignment to infiltrate the Melrose Avenue club scene, because their disguise consists of half-grown (or half-ungrown) beards, shaggy hair, [and] insouciant wisecracking attitudes.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Mick LaSalle

      San Francisco Chronicle

      As effective as a movie can be and yet still be 100 percent forgettable.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Susan Walker

      Toronto Star

      It didn't take much mental power to come up with the plot.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Robert Koehler

      Variety

      The illogic of the situation is so extreme that the final confrontation plays like an afterthought.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Roger Moore

      Orlando Sentinel

      [Miller's accent] isn't Sir Michael Caine in Hurry Sundown bad -- still the worst Southern accent ever attempted by a future Oscar winner and knight. But it's awful enough to call attention to itself in the middle of a movie smothered in awfulness.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Lisa Rose

      Newark Star-Ledger

      In a way, the movie title refers not only to the characters, but also the audience. Enduring this harrowingly derivative tale, viewers will wonder where the filmmakers' minds were.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Eric Harrison

      Houston Chronicle

      You'd think these agents' training would kick in, that they'd analyze the situation, deduce who is behind the killings and put a plan in place to stop it. You'd be wrong. They panic like ants after their hill has been stepped on.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Jennie Punter

      Globe and Mail

      There is something inherently mindless and preposterously silly about the whole exercise.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Tom Long

      Detroit News

      No one with any kind of mind should waste it on this film.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Lisa Kennedy

      Denver Post

      On the way to its finale, there's plenty of mayhem to keep you guessing.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Wesley Morris

      Boston Globe

      The movie can't even have campy fun with the foolishness in Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin's script.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Lou Lumenick

      New York Post

      The cinematic equivalent of a corpse left out to rot.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Jack Mathews

      New York Daily News

      The murderer may not be obvious because the script breaks every law of probability, and 'ridiculous' is too mild a word to apply to the deaths.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Jonathan Rosenbaum

      Chicago Reader

      Mindhunters has the dumbest whodunit thriller plot and the least plausible moves of any film I can think of.

      May 13, 2005 read full article

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      Dana Stevens

      New York Times

      Mindhunters is a quintessential Renny Harlin film: a big, dumb, loud action movie.

      May 12, 2005 read full article

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      Michael O'Sullivan

      Washington Post

      Corny? Oh, yeah. But it's also reasonably good fun.

      May 12, 2005 read full article