Mindhunters (2005)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

A lot of fun.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Modern version of an old short story....lots of special ways of killing off each character....in gross/disgusting ways.... Old plot with very few twists...

*SPOILERS* ...because they die in the first eighth of the movie. What makes this so bad is not that they are the most respected actors in the film, it's the fact that they seemed to be the main focus at the start of the movie. The film never seemed to get the slightest character development from any of the other characters, and the editing was horrible. The movie didn't run smoothly. It felt like a TV movie, because it kept jumping from one scene to the other. First of all, they're accusing this guy, then they're accusing this guy, and this guy...your head may go dizzy keeping up with the film. The death scenes are also outrageously hilarious. I felt like I was watching a serious version of Airplane! The film is also very fast paced, and by fast paced, I mean faster than the damn Flash. There is a lot of death scenes in the movie that try to be emotional, but they aren't because we get zero character development to make us pity them. In fact, you kind of wanted the characters that didn't die to die. There was also a pointless scene at the start of the movie that was obviously trying to hook us...then it turned out to just be a police training sequence. So, they decide to go training on a desert island. Don't worry, the film gets worse as it goes along. In fact, the only good thing I can remember about this movie is the quotes in the film, which were quite funny, especially the "eeny meany miny moe who's the next mother to go" quote. But apart from that, this film was utter crap, and I can't believe some people find this underrated. I was expecting a lower score than 6.4/10 for this pile of stink.Don't worry, there's also a lot of cliché helicopter flying scenes, which were popular in the early 2000's. Overall, I guess you can watch it to have a laugh, but if you're looking for a serious, gripping mystery with GOOD plot twists, stay away from this. 1.9/10!

First of all, let me start by saying I've seen this move probably more then 20 times by know. Somehow the story never gets old! Starting with a group of wanna be FBI profilers and their mentor setting out for a deserted island to profile a fictive killer and to earn their stripes as a profiler. Of course the whole thing goes terrible wrong (which is all I'm going to say about that) and the story unfolds from there. There is something about this group of actors and the way they interact with each other that feels so natural, you don't question it. The pace of the movie is very good, with suspense in all the right places. So to summarize: very, very good cast, good acting, nice pace of the movie and a bit (a little bit) of a surprise ending. Definitely a must-see!!

I think what I love about the film is that it looks as if the killer himself (herself?) made the movie. The mystery murderer who bumps off FBI Profiler hopefuls during training on a remote island is a precision expert, obsessed with time, meticulous preparation, and love of detail. The film, too, has spectacular visual polish--it's just a great-looking film, everything with this sinister, pristine quality that gives the viewer a fair chance to notice everything and solve the mystery.One by one the trainees start dying, even though it's supposed to be a harmless test of young new recruits who all wanna join the FBI, figure out the sick minds of serial killers, and put them away based only on whatever gory evidence they leave, or don't leave, behind. So unless someone is hiding on the island, the killer is amongst the bunch; the killer is Profiling the Profilers and slaying them one by one. There are clues, fake clues, convoluted messages, arrogant predictions of when the next death will occur (and darned if the impending victims can't manage to get off the clock...another one bites the dust), and no matter how clever the countermeasures, the bodies stack up as suspicion turns to panic turns to failure at keeping the crowd from thinning out.In fact, the deaths are quite gory. Not ultra-super gory, but definitely yuckville. The director has since gone on to express regret at the gore factor shown in his film--yet I can't help feeling that this film needs some gruesome deaths to make a memorable serial killer. This is some sick and twisted individual, and some pretty outrageous murder tactics help make the film an effective horror piece, not just a whodunit. Even if some armchair Sherlocks get within range of the right answer when it comes to the WHO of it all, the sheer demonic fun of getting there--those ghastly but memorable death scenes--makes up for any transparency in the solution. And with this kind of bloody, horrific style, we REALLY want to meet our killer!And anyway, I didn't figure it out. The movie does draw on some trickery that has already been utilized in at least one earlier, classic "one by one they die" murder mystery, and I still missed the big fake-out! The pace is so fast, the shocks so deliciously vile (you would tone this down, dear director? No!!!), that I saw only what the film wanted me to see, at a crucial moment, not what was right there in front of me.The performances go a long way in keeping this admittedly absurd scenario as believable as possible. In particular, I really loved LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris, and Jonny Lee Miller in this. Apparently, the soundtrack was a last-minute affair, relatively speaking, when original attempts didn't sound right in the director's opinion--and the music chosen is just perfect for the film.If you want a gory whodunit, get your nerve up and take a look.