History Film / Mindhunters

* LiterallyShatteredLives: The first trap captures [[spoiler:the leader of the trainees]] by spraying him with liquid nitrogen. He then falls and shatters into a million bloody pieces.

''Mindhunters'' (2004) is a murder mystery by the director Renny Harlin. It centers around a group of FBI's criminal profiler trainees who are sent to a remote island as part of a special training event designed by their instructor Jake Harris, played by ValKilmer. The trainees are supposed to catch a fictional serial killer called "The Puppeteer" but the situation quickly turns for the worse once a real killer starts picking off the trainees.

* ActionGirl: Sarah.

The plot of ''Mindhunters'' is much like Agatha Christie's novel ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. The movie did not do well at the box office.

Also starring Creator/JonnyLeeMiller, Music/LLCoolJ, and ChristianSlater.

* ForcedToWatch: [[The killer ties Harris and forced him to watch his recruits die on the monitors before torturing him and killing him.]]

* DeadGuyPuppet: [[spoiler:The killer kidnaps Harris (the group's supervisor), who had remained on the island in secret, and tortures him to death. After it seems like he's the killer himself, the group finds Harris' corpse hanging from the ceiling in an abandoned warehouse as a grotesque puppet. They accidentally trigger a switch wich animates the corpse to do a dance to a massively inappropriate upbeat jingle.]]

'''''Mindhunters''''' (2004) is a murder mystery by the director Renny Harlin. It centers around a group of FBI's criminal profiler trainees who are sent to a remote island as part of a special training event designed by their instructor Jake Harris, played by ValKilmer. The trainees are supposed to catch a fictional serial killer called "The Puppeteer" but the situation quickly turns for the worse once a real killer starts picking off the trainees.

* TooDumbToLive: When you're in the ''death house'', a place that is clearly booby-trapped that has already killed two people (and tried to kill more), under no circumstances do you pick up a random pack of cigarettes you find lying around.
** On that note, you probably shouldn't be wandering around said death house alone, either, nor should you desert the only other people in the place, considering one of the people you're leaving behind is trying to kill you and knows where the next trap is. Whatever [[spoiler: Nicole's]] strong points are, GenreSavvy is definitely not one of them.

** {{Envy}}: [[spoiler: Lucas, who admits he's jealous of how cool and calculated, yet clueless FBI agents seem after they overlook him as a suspect in his parents' murder. Albeit, he was just a kid when he offed them. Also Vince, somewhat. In addition to being bitter about his condition and the fact that he's not making profiler, he decides to drag Sarah's hopes down by revealing that she won't, either. Plus, he's never without his gun.]]

** {{Wrath}}: The killer obviously has this in spades. That aside, everyone pulls a gun on everybody else for most of the movie and Nicole takes this one to the next level when she suspects [[spoiler:Sarah]] of being the killer.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: After the first victim is killed all the phones on the island stop working, and all the team's cellphones lose signal. Not ''that'' ridiculous considering they were already 50 miles away from the coast...and the fact that this film takes place several years before the advent of nationwide 3G coverage.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: After the first victim is killed all the phones on the island stop working, and all the team's cellphones lose signal. Not ''that'' ridiculous considering they were already 50 miles away from the coast.

* ClockDiscrepancy: The heroine re-sets the clock so the villain will misjudge when he's due to strike again.

* CanYouHearMeNow: After the first victim is killed all the phones on the island stop working, and all the team's cellphones lose signal. Not ''that'' ridiculous considering they were already 50 miles away from the coast.

** {{Gluttony}}: [[spoiler:Rafe's a coffee junkie.]]

** Lust: [[spoiler:Nicole's need for cigarettes; Plus she's sleeping with J.D. and somewhat comes onto Gabe.]]
** Gluttony: [[spoiler:Rafe's a coffee junkie.]]
** Envy: [[spoiler: Lucas, who admits he's jealous of how cool and calculated, yet clueless FBI agents seem after they overlook him as a suspect in his parents' murder. Albeit, he was just a kid when he offed them. Also Vince, somewhat. In addition to being bitter about his condition and the fact that he's not making profiler, he decides to drag Sarah's hopes down by revealing that she won't, either. Plus, he's never without his gun]]
** Wrath: The killer obviously has this in spades. That aside, everyone pulls a gun on everybody else for most of the movie and Nicole takes this one to the next level when she suspects [[spoiler:Sarah]] of being the killer.
** Pride: [[spoiler:J.D. always has to take the lead; Lucas paraphrases {{Wolverine}}: "I'm the best at what I do."; Bobby is a mechanical/technical whiz and readily flaunts this.]]
** Greed: Gabe doesn't approve of how taxpayers' (apparently including his) hard-earned dollars are spent.
** Sloth: Aside from J.D., no one lifts a finger to help Nicole prepare dinner. Particularly frowning on Gabe here, since he's basically an unexpected and uninvited guest.

* PostMortemOneLiner: "I guess we know what his weakness is....bullets."

Also starring Creator/JonnyLeeMiller and Music/LLCoolJ.

* XanatosRoulette: [[spoiler: How did the killer know they'd all decide to drink coffee, all at the same time, and all drink enough of it so they'd remain asleep for the same length of time? How did the killer know that Nicole would pass a cigarette machine and then give in to her craving? How did the killer know that JD or Bobby wouldn't simply get out of the way of their respective traps? etc., etc., etc.]]

->'''Harris:''' ''"The point is that they're isolated, alone, and forgotten. That's what it's like to be in the mind of a sociopath."''

''Mindhunters'' (2004) is a murder mystery by the director Renny Harlin. It centers around a group of FBI's criminal profiler trainees who are sent to a remote island as part of a special training event designed by their instructor Jake Harris, played by Val Kilmer. The trainees are supposed to catch a fictional serial killer called "The Puppeteer" but the situation quickly turns for the worse once a real killer starts picking off the trainees.