Mindhunters movie release May 13 stars KM/Reviews

[~Naj]

Here's the link to the Trailer: Mindhunters Trailer

Article with Trailer from MSN
May 13 in theatres


Official Site:
www.mindhunters-thefilm.com/



naj

[marysgurl1]

This looks toooo good!! Maybe even one I would pay to see at the theatre....

Thanks, naj!!

[Lizzbitt]

Saw Previews of this movie at the theater last week.

Your girl looks good in this movie naj

Going to see it when it premeirs

Glad to see on board.

[~Naj]

Lizzbitt said:

Saw Previews of this movie at the theater last week.

Your girl looks good in this movie naj

Going to see it when it premeirs

Glad to see on board.

Kathryn does go well in those types of movies. Did you ever see her in the first season of "Pensacola: Wings of Gold?"


naj

[marysgurl1]

I did! I did!! Loved her in that show...watched it every morning after I got home from work. Saw her in something else..not too long ago....some movie where she is a bad girl & it gets really really hot....she & her boyfriend break into a vault while the city is on Natl. Alert....lol...can you follow that sentence?

Happy Monday!

[~Naj]

marysgurl said:

I did! I did!! Loved her in that show...watched it every morning after I got home from work. Saw her in something else..not too long ago....some movie where she is a bad girl & it gets really really hot....she & her boyfriend break into a vault while the city is on Natl. Alert....lol...can you follow that sentence?

Happy Monday!

Was it INFERNO? I saw most of it one day on tv. She's a tomboy in that one.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0175771/


naj

[marysgurl1]

Yeah...that was it..."Inferno"....not so bad for a small part....boy could she handle that big truck!!

[Lesa]

I just caught the ad for this on TV,
and it looks pretty interesting.

[~Naj]

Lesigner said:

I just caught the ad for this on TV,
and it looks pretty interesting.

Hi Le,

See the Kathryn appearance video on "The View". She talks about the movie and they have another excerpt. This movie looks very good to me. I like a good suspense story.


naj

[~Naj]

More from Yahoo Entertainment:

Mindhunters Trailer-Cast

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[Halona]

Thanks Naj, looks good

[~Naj]

CBS interview with Kathryn.


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REVIEW

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Going Mental
Mindhunters is truly stupid fun.
BY LUKE Y. THOMPSON
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picture of cast
Any of you could die at any time.



Mindhunters
Opens Friday. Rated R.
Film Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Christian Slater, LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris, and Clifton Collins Jr.
Written By: Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin, from a story by Kramer



If you're expecting a psychological thriller out of Mindhunters, and you buy a ticket for the movie, you will almost indubitably feel cheated. But break down the film's title to its most literal sense -- hunting for a mind, presumably because those involved were out of theirs -- and you'll know exactly what to expect. This is, after all, a Renny Harlin film, which means it'll be bad. The only question is will it be goofy, nacho-cheese bad like Deep Blue Sea and The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine, or just plain old godawful-bad like Driven or Cliffhanger?
Thankfully, the former. And how could it not be when the film is more or less a remake of Deep Blue Sea, minus the sharks? There's the computer-generated, isolated-island lab; a demographically mixed group of victims who will be picked off one by one; the sense that all these deaths are the result of government irresponsibility; and even a sudden, shocking celebrity death scene, mirroring Deep Blue Sea's most memorable moment. All that, and LL Cool J too. Oh, and the movie opens with images of deep water, and someone drowning -- this will later prove to be of minor importance in a key scene.

Following the credits, we pick up with FBI trainees Christian Slater and Minority Report's Kathryn Morris (looking here like Ellen DeGeneres, strangely enough), on the trail of a serial killer through fake-looking snow. Like every serial killer imagined by screenwriters nowadays, this one is clearly a goth who owns a large old house full of doll parts, music boxes, and dead animals. But things are not as they appear: A rather obvious "surprise" occurs, and in short order our profilers-in-training are being reprimanded by teacher Val Kilmer, whose casting feels like a deliberate tipoff that his character may be insane.

Slater's and Morris's characters are part of a larger class who, for their final exam, are to be shipped off to a remote island that has been tricked out as a sort of CSI-themed Disneyland infested with stray cats, which are all the better to create cheap shocks with, à la Alien, or kill for cheap gross-outs, à la Gummo. Somewhere in this new environment lies a staged crime scene, clues to the nature of which could be anywhere and everywhere. Among the stranded: LL Cool J as a last-minute government liaison, Jonny Lee Miller as an annoyingly fake Southerner (even his Trainspotting costar Ewan McGregor does better American accents), big-screen newcomer Will Kemp as a spunky Brit (standout line: "'E just pulled that gun ou' of 'is arse!"), Clifton Collins Jr. as a surly gun nut in a wheelchair, and Patricia Velasquez as -- surprise! -- a hot-tempered Latina.

A strangled cat with a broken watch in its guts kicks off the excitement, as the group splits into teams of two to find their assignment. No sooner is it found than a preposterously elaborate and easily escapable death trap activates, claiming a life at exactly the time shown on the broken watch. The rest of the movie is basically a series of repetitions of this action, as Rube Goldberg-esque devices proceed to claim one life at a time, always at exactly the hour specified on a conspicuously placed broken clock. It is determined via infrared rays that no one else is on the island with the group, so one of them is most likely the killer, adding to the paranoia.

In other words, this is a slasher movie. It's not about the characters, or the dramatic tension, or any kind of believability. It's about how cool the death scenes are, and on that score, Harlin is a champ. Recalling the gory grotesque kills he devised for Freddy Krueger back in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 4, he has invested most of his time and energy on Mindhunters into creative, gruesome demises. But they're not entirely random: When the pattern behind the killings is finally revealed, it adds a nice touch to the proceedings. Props to screenwriter Wayne Kramer (The Cooler) for that, and for not telegraphing exactly whose time is up next -- when anyone can die at any time, it's a good recipe for suspense.

Regarding that, though, it does tend to undercut the suspense when one is saddled with a majorly crappy score (credited to Finnish composer Tuomas Kantelinen) that vacillates from mediocre hard rock to intrusive orchestral without any apparent regard for what's actually onscreen. It's also lame when a climactic confrontation suddenly devolves into sped-up kung fu, especially since neither participant looks all that well versed in the martial arts. Of the cast, only Collins delivers a memorable performance with the sort of energy and intensity this film needs; Kilmer is good too, but basically a glorified cameo.

Despite all its flaws -- and there are enough to render Mindhunters indefensible on most purely cinematic levels -- 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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MOVIE REVIEW
Mindhunters: FBI trainees on island are the hunted, not hunters

By Phoebe Flowers
Film Writer
Posted May 13 2005


Mindhunters

With: Christian Slater, LL Cool J
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Running time: 106 minutes
Rated R: Violence, graphic images, language, sexual content



If you take its history into consideration, Mindhunters should be one of the worst movies of the year. Actually, make that one of the worst movies of the past three years. That's how long it's been languishing in a vault waiting for a release date. Just how old is this raucous serial-killer thriller? So old that at one point it was scheduled to open against Marci X, a movie most don't remember.

But somehow, someway, Mindhunters has risen above its multiple reshoots, rewrites and re-edits to be a thoroughly compelling suspense film. That doesn't mean it isn't kind of dumb, or largely ridiculous -- it is both -- but here dumb ridiculousness has been elevated to an art form.

While in another movie absurdity might be a problem, in Mindhunters it's the solution. The plot centers on a group of aspiring FBI profilers, taught by a proud lunatic named Harris (Val Kilmer, himself a proud lunatic). They are dumped on a desolate island as a final exam. Inconveniently, it turns out that a vicious serial killer is among them. For no real reason except that it's creepy -- reason enough! -- the island is also filled with vaguely waxlike human figures. Sadly, Paris Hilton does not appear for the sole purpose of being brutally murdered.

The wannabe profilers include nice-guy Lucas (Jonny Lee Miller) and trembly Sara (Kathryn Morris). Christian Slater plays the leader of the team, with his naked backside a crucial co-star. And, most delightfully, rapper-turned-actor LL Cool J is a profiler with the Philadelphia police department who accompanies the feds on the island for ultimately meaningless reasons.

Mindhunters was directed by Renny Harlin, which is a bad thing if you've seen Cutthroat Island and an extremely good one if Deep Blue Sea is instead your point of reference. While this movie does not feature any genius-level sharks -- a plot element that we can probably all agree is rarely out of place -- it retains Deep Blue Sea's unique spirit. That is to say, it is awesome.

Phoebe Flowers can be reached at [e-mail].



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review

[~Naj]

'Mindhunters' fits the profile of a fun, well-made frightfest
Friday, May 13, 2005
Julie E. Washington
Plain Dealer Reporter

"Mindhunters" belongs to that subgenre of horror films that puts a group of people in an isolated situation and lets an unseen bugaboo pick them off. If done poorly, this kind of movie can be excruciatingly bad. At its best, it can be sensational. Think "Alien."

"Mindhunters" gets it right, with plenty of paranoia, tension and misdirection to keep audiences guessing up to the final twist.

A group of FBI agents is undergoing training to be profilers - investigators who get into the minds of serial killers and learn to think as they do. Instructor Jake Harris, played by Val Kilmer, is a nut job who enjoys setting up extremely twisted fake murder scenes to challenge his students.

For the final test, the group is flown to a remote and uninhabited island owned by the government. The island features a creepy, simulated Main Street USA, full of fake people shopping in fake stores and sitting in motionless cars.

The FBI agents, led by J.D. Reston (Christian Slater), are unsettled when Gabe Jensen (LL Cool J) unexpectedly joins them on the island.

They get even more worried when FBI agents start dying in gruesome ways. Someone in the group is a killer, using his or her knowledge of the team members' personalities to lure them into deadly traps.

"Mindhunters" has fun dabbling in the disgusting and macabre. It even borrowed "organ-cams" from "CSI" to take us into a victim's racked body.

Rounding out the ensemble cast are Kathryn Morris (television's "Cold Case"), Clifton Collins Jr. ("Traffic") and Patricia Velazquez ("The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns").

This Miramax film is one of the movies affected by the departure of Miramax co-chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein from Disney. According to a New York Times article, the movie was finished two years ago. It finally got a release date because the Weinstein brothers are purging movies they produced or acquired from Miramax's shelves before the new managers take over later this year.

"Mindhunters" is no "Shakespeare in Love," but it didn't deserve to gather dust.

This is one seriously twisted - and delicious - creepfest.

To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:

[e-mail], 216-999-4539


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B-movie thrills at their most basic in 'Mindhunters'
By Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER


PLUCKED from those famous Miramax/ Dimension deep shelves at the eleventh hour, "Mindhunters" arrives in North American theaters a couple of years after its initial planned release date.

Having already played in a number of overseas territories, the British/Dutch/Finnish-American co-production can't help but carry a certain DVD-ready stigma, and that's probably where it will be doing its greatest business in this neck of the woods.

While the premise is intriguing — a group of young FBI profilers are being systematically and gruesomely eliminated during what is supposed to be an elaborate training exercise — director Renny Harlin's take on Agatha Christie's versatile "Ten Little Indians" is total B-movie swagger in all its unsubtle glory.

Taken for what it is, along with the clunky dialogue, cardboard-cutout characterizations and eardrum-pounding orchestral blasts, the picture is not without its occasional cheap thrills, which should prove to be more cost-effective in the form of a video store rental.

After an audience-tease of a prologue, "Mindhunters" gets down to the business of plopping its group of FBI Investigative Support Unit would-be profilers in the middle of a remote island that looks like a Main Street USA studio backlot that has seriously gone to seed (it actually was filmed in the Netherlands).

It is there that leader Jake Harris (Val Kilmer) has orchestrated a murder-scene simulation of a final exam designed to weed out the weaker links, but it quickly becomes apparent that the theoretical serial killer they're attempting to profile is the real thing, and, with each subsequent murder, it's looking more and more like the perpetrator is among them.

Although the script, credited to Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin, works overtime attempting to evoke early John Carpenter, some of the nasty demises, no matter how illogical, have their seriously twisted allure, and while Harlin amps everything up to the extreme, the results are at least livelier than his version of "Exorcist: The Beginning," which he took on after "Mindhunters."

The cast — also including Christian Slater (sharing the name J.D. with his "Heathers" character), LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris, Jonny Lee Miller, Eion Bailey and Clifton Collins Jr. — do what they can with the hokey dialogue until visual effects supervisor Brian M. Jennings gets around to creatively putting them out of their misery.






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