Movie Review: Mindhunters
May 13, 2005 - Lynn Barker
Ooooo spooky. A bunch of folks on an isolated island and somebody among them is a killer. It's Club Med gone terribly wrong without the palm trees, cabana boys and bikini babes. Certainly not new but always a thrillride!
In Mindhunters, trainee profilers Gabe Jenkins (LL Cool J), J.D. Reston (Christian Slater), Bobby Whitman (Eion Bailey), Rafe Perry (Will Kemp), Lucas Halpern (Jonny Lee Miller), Vince Sherman (Clifton Collins Jr.),Sarah Moore (Kathryn Morris) and Nicole Willis (Patricia Velazquez) are flown by chopper to a deserted, government owned island by their boss/trainer Harris (Val Kimler). This place makes "Survivor" look like a tea party.
As the candidates are put through a variety of tests and must solve crimes and find the make believe serial killer, they realize one of them is evidently not there to go to school and is taking this killer thing way too seriously. The killer is leaving strange clues before each murder and he/she is creative too. He uses explosives, meat hooks, weird poisons, electrocution, etc. Of course everybody starts accusing everybody else and these guys all have guns so somebody is bound to get hurt before the fittest survives.




