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Mindhunters
Dimension Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for violence/strong graphic images, language and sexual content
Starring
Val Kilmer,
LL Cool J,
Christian Slater,
Jonny Lee Miller,
Eion Bailey,
Will Kemp,
Patricia Velasquez,
and
Kathryn Morris
A training program for the FBI's psychological profiling division, known as Mindhunters, is infilitrated by a serial killer
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Crime
|
Horror
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Wayne Kramer (also story)
Kevin Brodbin
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Renny Harlin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 20, 2005
Theatrical: May 13, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Netherlands / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
In its design, at least, Mindhunters"surpasses all other Christie knockoffs.

70
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Corny? Oh, yeah. But it's also reasonably good fun.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Trashy and indefensible in most respects, Mindhunters may be a good-bad movie, but entertainment is entertainment, however it comes.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Director Renny Harlin's take on Agatha Christie's versatile "Ten Little Indians" is total B-movie swagger in all its unsubtle glory.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Is the film worth seeing? Well, yes and no. Yes, because it is exactly what it is, and no, for the same reason.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
What does satisfy is the pleasantly becalming presence of "Deep" costar LL Cool J. He's fast becoming Liv Ullmann to Harlin's Bergman.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
One of Mindhunters' strengths is that it's difficult to guess who the culprit is because Harlin and his screenwriters don't play fair with the audience.

50
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
The score sucks and the acting is weak, but there are times when certain moviegoers just feel the need to stare far-fetched, blood-drenched death in the eye and laugh. It's here, so have at it.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
It did give me plenty of jolts and surprises.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Mindhunters is as effective as a movie can be and yet still be 100 percent forgettable.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
While Mindhunters aspires to be a psychological thriller, it's really just mindless entertainment.

50
Film Threat
David Grove
Here's a film that exhibits all kinds of joy in uncoiling a story with no ending, or an ending that's so arbitrary you get the feeling that the filmmakers just threw names in a hat to see who their killer would be.

42
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's been fascinating to watch the "intellectual" subgenre of the serial-killer movie -- the one where poetic evil geniuses elude the cops while leaving trails of art-directed crime scenes -- run out of ideas and start feeding on itself.

40
Variety
Robert Koehler
Ridiculous would-be thriller.

40
LA Weekly
Robert Abele
A tiring exercise in time-biding sadism (versus wit or suspense), inflated with shock editing, noisy effects and an angry score, like a thriller with road rage.

38
Premiere
Nicole Perri
Who knows what might have been if everyone involved had a little more fun with the project instead of just going through the motions?

38
USA Today
Mike Clark
A contrived, unpleasant and very drawn-out affair.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Harlin's brisk pacing leaves little time for reflection, but the whole house of blood-spattered cards dissolves upon even cursory reflection.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Turns out to be a thudding dud, crammed with clunky dialogue, bad acting and gruesome but unpersuasive gore. Mindhunters will pass muster with only the most undemanding horror fans.

30
The New York Times
Lawrence Van Gelder
A quintessential Renny Harlin film: a big, dumb, loud action movie.

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A stale and stupid thriller.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
So bad it's awful.

25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
In 1939, when "Ten Little Indians" was published, Agatha Christie mysteries were the crème de la pop literature. Her fans depended on logic in her stories, and they got it. Mindhunters would have insulted their intelligence, and it should insult yours.

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's hard to have sympathy for a movie that tosses in the old shower sneak-up sequence or allows its characters to speak as obviously as possible while standing in a pool of red liquid.

20
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Eye-blowing and mind-numbing.
20
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Another unthrilling Renny Harlin thriller.

12
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Mark my words: Mindhunters will do for psycho-thrillers what "Showgirls" did for stripper movies.

10
Village Voice
David Ng
In an era of wall-to-wall "CSI," Mindhunters' ghoulish forensic hubbub not only feels tiring but hopelessly redundant.

10
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
So stupid it makes "xXx: State of the Union" look like it was written by Nietzsche.

0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The psychobabble silliness passed off as investigative insight here is laughable at best.


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