Modern version of an old short story....lots of special ways of killing off each character....in gross/disgusting ways.... Old plot with very few twists...

Sometimes, I wonder why such awesome films as Mindhunters was bashed by film critics and was a flop in theaters. Released in 2004, it has stood the test of time well and is viewed very fresh and well now. The reason - shorter time, excellent cast, with Jonny Lee Miller, Kathryn Morris and LL Cool J among the best, excellent pacing and very good camera work. I do recommend this FBI mouse-cat-whodunnit-drama as it offers many thrills and holds you at the edge of your seat. Excellent nail-biting thriller where you never guess who the main culprit is till the very end. It is also fine for its correct dark navy color scheme and very menacing cold atmosphere of fear and suspicion. My rate is 10

A group of FBI serial killer profilers is sent to a mock town on an uninhabited island for training, only to discover that one of them is an actual serial killer.Let me start by saying that this film is as dumb as a sack of rocks. Much of it makes no sense at all, not least of which are some of the impossibly convoluted killing methods, which depend on knowing that so-and-so will be standing in just such a position at just such a time - murder by dominoes and liquid nitrogen being a case in point. I can envision someone being unprepared to suspend disbelief over that, so that the film turns them off completely. Personally, I thought it was a hoot.And I think the cast has fun chewing the scenery in an over-the-top load of old nonsense, directed by Renny Harlin with panache, style, and tongue firmly in cheek.So did I.

Formulaic thrill ride with intellectual pretensions as F.B.I. profilers are at the center. The best and the brightest. Ooops! That is the problem in this visually vigorous "guess the killer among us" Movie. The Agents don't seem to be too smart although they pretend to be, spin and solve a Rubik's Cube in less than two minutes, is an obvious and ostentatious display.If you buy these characters and settle in for the somewhat creative and sanguinary serial killings, the Movie might pass as an entertaining diversion. The set-ups and the executions are the main thing here and complexity or the mysterious are shelved.An acceptable entry into the middle rungs of this kind of thing that has more style than substance. The ending is ho-hum and goes on a bit too long, but in the end it is watchable but frivolous fluff-stuff.