Plot
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Release Year: 2004
Rating: 6.2/10 (29,434 voted)
Critic's Score: 33/100
Director:
Renny Harlin
Stars: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater
Storyline On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychological profiling division, called "Mindhunters", used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time?
Writers: Wayne Kramer, Wayne Kramer
Cast: Eion Bailey
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Bobby Whitman
Clifton Collins Jr.
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Vince Sherman
Will Kemp
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Rafe Perry
Val Kilmer
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Jake Harris
Jonny Lee Miller
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Lucas Harper
Kathryn Morris
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Sara Moore
Christian Slater
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J.D. Reston
LL Cool J
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Gabe Jensen
(as James Todd Smith aka LL Cool J)
Patricia Velasquez
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Nicole Willis
Cassandra Bell
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Jen
Daniël Boissevain
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Second Man in the Bar
Antonie Kamerling
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Man in the Bar
(as Anthone Kamerling)
Jasmine Sendar
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Friend of Jen
Trevor White
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Attacker
Taglines:
For seven elite profilers, finding a serial killer is a process of elimination. Their own.
Trivia:
The cast met with FBI personnel and underwent military weapons training for their roles.
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
Towards the end when Gabe handcuffs his chair to the table, it shows Vince shaking his leg when he is supposed to be paralyzed from the waist down.
Quotes:
[first lines]
J.D.:
How about I drive, huh?
User Review
Not bad at all
Rating: 7/10
I don't want to give away too much about the story, so I'll stick to the
basics.
A small group of FBI-serial killer experts are in a training program. Val
Kilmer is the trainer, an eccentric character named Harris who runs the show
in his own way. The whole idea is putting them in situations where they are
likely to mess up, so that they will think twice before acting to quickly or
jumping to the wrong conclusions in real life.
The idea of this last exercise is to isolate the group on a deserted island,
so they can focus on "profiling" a killer without any help from forensics,
witnesses and so forth. Things take a very unexpected turn when one of the
team gets killed.
It would seem that instead of an exercise they are faced with the real thing
: Profiling and identifying a killer before he kills all of them. Is the
killer an outsider or someone from within their team ?
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Stuck on an island, people ending up dead one after another... Yes, there is
a more than a dash of Agatha Christie there. But there are plenty of
interesting add-ons to this Ten Little Indians clone. The acting is pretty
decent, although in my opinion LL Cool J was a little too cool to be
convincing (some of lines really are over-the-top...) and maybe Miss
Valesquez should limit herself to non-speaking parts as her English sounds
very laboured.
Don't go in expecting a masterpiece, just enjoy the ride. This movie is a
fun high-adrenaline action movie /thriller. I give it 8/10
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