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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.
Thriller, Crime, Horror, Action, Mystery, Adventure
2004-03-19
20 Critic reviews
Detroit Free Press
May 21, 2005 read full article
Dallas Morning News
May 21, 2005 read full article
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
May 21, 2005 read full article
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
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
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
Susan Walker
Toronto Star
It didn't take much mental power to come up with the plot.
May 13, 2005 read full article
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
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
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
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
Jennie Punter
Globe and Mail
There is something inherently mindless and preposterously silly about the whole exercise.
May 13, 2005 read full article
Tom Long
Detroit News
No one with any kind of mind should waste it on this film.
May 13, 2005 read full article
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
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
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
The cinematic equivalent of a corpse left out to rot.
May 13, 2005 read full article
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
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
Dana Stevens
New York Times
Mindhunters is a quintessential Renny Harlin film: a big, dumb, loud action movie.
May 12, 2005 read full article
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
Corny? Oh, yeah. But it's also reasonably good fun.
May 12, 2005 read full article