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75In its design, at least, Mindhunters"surpasses all other Christie knockoffs.
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70Director Renny Harlin's take on Agatha Christie's versatile "Ten Little Indians" is total B-movie swagger in all its unsubtle glory.
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70Trashy and indefensible in most respects, Mindhunters may be a good-bad movie, but entertainment is entertainment, however it comes.
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70Corny? Oh, yeah. But it's also reasonably good fun.
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63Is the film worth seeing? Well, yes and no. Yes, because it is exactly what it is, and no, for the same reason.
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58What does satisfy is the pleasantly becalming presence of "Deep" costar LL Cool J. He's fast becoming Liv Ullmann to Harlin's Bergman.
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50Mindhunters is as effective as a movie can be and yet still be 100 percent forgettable.
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50One 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.
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50While Mindhunters aspires to be a psychological thriller, it's really just mindless entertainment.
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50Here'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.
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50The 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.
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50It did give me plenty of jolts and surprises.
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42It'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.
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40A 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.
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40Ridiculous would-be thriller.
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38A contrived, unpleasant and very drawn-out affair.
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38Who knows what might have been if everyone involved had a little more fun with the project instead of just going through the motions?
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30Harlin's brisk pacing leaves little time for reflection, but the whole house of blood-spattered cards dissolves upon even cursory reflection.
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30Turns 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.
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30A quintessential Renny Harlin film: a big, dumb, loud action movie.
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25In 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.
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25So bad it's awful.
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25A stale and stupid thriller.
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25It'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.
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20Another unthrilling Renny Harlin thriller.
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20Eye-blowing and mind-numbing.
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12Mark my words: Mindhunters will do for psycho-thrillers what "Showgirls" did for stripper movies.
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In an era of wall-to-wall "CSI," Mindhunters' ghoulish forensic hubbub not only feels tiring but hopelessly redundant.
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10So stupid it makes "xXx: State of the Union" look like it was written by Nietzsche.
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0The psychobabble silliness passed off as investigative insight here is laughable at best.
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