Review of Mindhunters (2004) by Simona B — 06 Oct 2010

Another one of my B movie guilty pleasures.

Based on Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None", the film introduces us to seven elite FBI psychological profilers in training. Their classroom is an island off the Carolina coast built to imitate an urban setting. Their goal is to stop an imaginary serial killer from claiming his next victim. Things get out of hand when the agents themselves, one by one, start dying increasingly gruesome deaths ranging from being sprayed with nitrous oxide (which causes the victim to shatter like ice) to dissolving from the inside out after a few drags on a toxin-drowsed cigarette (having peeled off a Nicorette patch and decided to give up on giving up smoking).

The acting is not too bad, but the screenplay is one medium-sized concoction of passages from the B Movie Screenwriter's Great Book Of Movie Cliches. It's so bad, it's good, and one of the film's characters puts it best: "Did he just pull that gun out of his ass?" Yes, I'd say it looked like that to me as well, but I had a blast watching him do it nonetheless.