Review of Mindhunters (2004) by Marischa B — 27 Dec 2010

Even FBI trainees are training to become elite profilers, in order to succedd they have to do a training simulation on an island where they are supposed to find a serial killer, of course the mission is just a game to see who handles situations in the best way possible. But the game quickly changes to fatal reality when someone takes the game too seriously. Now the quickly decreasing number of seven people have to find out who's setting up traps for them on the island but it's not that easy when they're the only ones on the island.

Well the plot is something I suppose, a serial killer picking off the FBI trainees one by one, instead of using the usual Knife, Machete or Chainsaw, this killer cleaverly uses specially timed inventive traps, you see this Killer has studied each member of the trainees habits and so knows what can kill them, they're goal is to try find out who this killer is and play him or her at they're own game, before they all end up dead.

"Mindhunters" has a number of famous faces such as rapper/singer/actor LL Cool J (Deep Blue Sea Halloween (HZO), Christian Slater (Broken Arrow & Alone In The Dark), Val Kilmer (Top Gun & Batman Forever), Johnny Lee Miller (Trainspoting), Kathryn Norris (Minorty Report and TV'S Cold Case) and Patrica Velaquez (The Mummy Returns).

Being the slasherfan that I am, it's nice to be able to enjoy a slasher where the killer doesn't wear a mask and the cast doesn't consist of a bunch of good looking teens who can't act. Not having these two factors, just proves that the story is stronger than most modern slashers, it's a shame that movie ended being shevled for years and wasn't a success at the box office but to me that doesn't matter because this is one hell of gem of a movie.

Each cast member brings they're own unique talent to the roles of this movie, yes even LL Cool J who I don't think much of as a singer, but in this movie he plays a strong lead character in this movie, Christian Slater is also solid in his short screen time, Johnny Lee Miller shows depths to his character as the movie goes on and both the female leads are great as well Kathryn Norris plays cat and mouse with the unknown killer and plays the killer at his own game.

The deaths in this movie are cool and inventive, we get a guy iced then breaks into pieces, a decapitation, a guy gets speared through the chest and we also get something completely new death by cigarettes, laced with acid and let's just say smoking is bad for your health.

All in all there's a little something for everyone in this movie, there's the horror, action and a bit of CSI, well recommend this movie to anyone.