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Kathryn Morris

Jonny Lee Miller

LL Cool J

Christian Slater

Patricia Velásquez

Clifton Collins Jr.

Eion Bailey

Will Kemp

Val Kilmer

Cassandra Bell

Jasmine Sendar

Antonie Kamerling

Daniël Boissevain

Trevor White

Louise Seymour

Cary Brokaw

Guy East

Moritz Borman

Renny Harlin

Akiva Goldsman

Robert Newmyer

Jeffrey Silver

Nigel Sinclair

Monika Mikkelsen

Pur Thijs

Lisa Chugg

Craig Irving

Leslie Shatz

Andrew Caller

Yvonne Bakker

Matthew Gray

Stelios Polychronakis

Graeme Purdy

Jon Stevenson

Ruth Sullivan

Janine Schneider

Berry van Zwieten

Thomas Martin

Tricia Cameron

Linnea Pohjola

Marco Rooth

Kay Georgiou

Rob Hillenbrink

Arthur Koek

Nick Adams

Stuart Morton

Matt Lewis

Rebecca Spikings

Paul Martin Smith

Eliza Solesbury

Tessa Hornstra

Meta Schalij

Samir Fočo

Toby Shears

Tuomas Kantelinen

Steve Gaub

James Dunn

Brian Best

Charles Wood

Nicholas Hastings

Wilma Dunn

Marten Negenman

Neil Farrell

Colin Jackman

Louise Frogley

Tony Gardner

Julian Ashby

Andy Nicholson

Paul Dunn

Ingrid Van Wakeran

Ivana Jeftic

Jon Olive

Robert Gantz

Simon Webber

Johan Rompelberg

Steve Single

Luke Marcel

Wayne Kramer

Harry Wiesenhaan

Scott McIntyre

Kevin Brodbin

Lee Wilson

Lou Huijs

Scott Strauss

Marlies van Ree

Lynda Foote

Patrick Dodd

Willem de Beukelaer

Marcel de Hoogd

Tjarco van Wijck

Susan E. Novick

Bryan Baverstock

Heleen Rouw

Hans de Weers

Andrew Glen

Joe Rangel

Steve Oakes

Tamás Nyerges

Grant Hewlett

Ralph Foster

Katja Sobrino

Dan Farrell

Rudger Faber

Micky Reeves

Flip Bleekrode

Jimmy Geduld

Erwin Godschalk

Harvey Weinstein

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The Mindhunters of the title are a group of FBI profilers who as part of their training are sent to a remote island to solve a mock crime in a mock town. Their mission is to form a profile of a serial killer known as The Puppeteer, trouble is, is that The Puppeteer turns out to be real and starts picking them off one by one.

Directed by Renny Harlin and featuring a bonkers story written by Wayne Kramer, it doesn't take an FBI profiler to know what sort of film this is going to be. Featuring a cast that contains LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Patricia Velásquez, Val Kilmer and Christian Slater, Mindhunters is undeniably preposterous cinema for the easily pleased masses, and yet it's still hugely enjoyable and isn't found wanting in the ingenuity stakes. 

The killers secret is closely guarded, which keeps the Ten Little Indians (yes this is another Agatha cover version) like mystery going, and the manner of the deaths have a morbid freshness about them - with one in particular being outrageously thrilling. A few scenes are neatly crafted by Harlin, who is after all is no slouch in the action genre (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight), while the swimming pool finale is taut and tight and the killer reveal genuinely a surprise. 

Yes there's problems abound in the film, but isn't there always in this kind of "B" movie hogwash? The cast do what is required as they work through some pretty naff dialogue, and any expectation about caring for any of these characters should be set at option zero. However, it's a nice fit for Harlin, as it finds him comfortable in the knowledge that we want whizz bang murder death kill, and thus he delivers. Expectation of anything else is pure folly and one directs you towards René Clair's excellent 1945 film, And Then There Were None if you need something a bit more solid in your murder mystery diet. 7/10

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