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Mindhunters

Mindhunters

What is your review for the movie: "Mindhunters"?

Mindhunters

Given the box blurbs and presentation for this, I really was, hope against hope, anticipating a very gritty but psychologically thrilling and clever homicidal mystery, like an awesome CSI or something like Criminal Minds but with killers stalking the team.

Christian Slater's inclusion, of course, should have been my very early tipoff that no such thing was going to happen. He's like the love child of Dolph Lundgren and Jack Nicholson on his worst, drunkest day - the kiss of death for any movie that threatens to be watchable otherwise. And the bad thing is, it's not like his part is really pivotal or really even notably important, in the story anyway, though he's the biggest name, so you could kill him off in the first 10 minutes of a movie, but it won't stop the Slater Effect from tanking your flick.

To my chagrin, this movie was not the product pictured on the tin, as it were, but was instead a slasher movie, using allegedly intelligent profilers for victims instead of brainless teens (not that they don't have brainless teen moments - Oho, what's this? Well, I COULD use a snack, and here is this candy just lying on the ground!), and directed by someone that liked Saw, or at least somewhat unusual variety in some scenes.

Good for establishing for the viewer the POTENTIAL setup for a good movie, so they can feel the true horror when they realize the movie isn't going to deliver on what it could have.

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The government's best and brightest discover there is a killer among them in this intense psychological action-thriller. On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychological profiling division, called "Mindhunters", used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time?