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June 7, 2008
Mind Hunters (2004)
Should I see it?
Absolutely not.


Short Review: By the looks of it, they didn't find any minds before making this film.



This is so abundantly stupid, so fully juvenile, that it is almost beyond reviewing. A pronouncement that this film stinks is as shocking as a warning to people that the sun is real toasty..

Cast with the who’s who or who’s not who anymore, this movie is like a career obituary. Wondering what ever became of Christian Slater or Val Kilmer? This film answers your query: Not much.

I’m shocked they were able to cast this heap in the first place. I cannot imagine any actor read this script and thought to themselves “Yeah, this is going to advance the ol’ career.” Val Kilmer would have been better served doing hemorrhoid cream ads during the Super Bowl than being connected with this swamp of stupid. Like Charles Bronson making the Deathwish films, Kilmer has gone from making bad movies to simply making calls for help.

Let’s try to force our way into the inane story about a bunch of investigators stranded on an island that serves as a training ground investigators in order to hunt a fake killer only to find their fake killer is actually real. Beyond this tenth-grade creative writing plotline, we are left to behold some truly pathetic dialog and characters that are less developed than Michael Jackson’s forearms. When a character is killed it literally means nothing. There is nothing for the audience to connect to which instills a moment’s discomfort with losing anyone on screen. The grandest death in the piece elicits the same response as watching someone throwing away a used Styrofoam cup. Actually, that’s not entirely true. One can surmise that the cup had a purpose at one point and probably gave the consumer a moment of satisfaction. There, it proven: This film has less worth than a used, chewed up Styrofoam cup.

The film isn’t a complete loss. You do get to see Christian Slater get killed. I’ve always been a huge supporter of his death scenes. He should get killed on-screen more often. Usually when someone tells me he’s in a film, reflexively I hurriedly ask, “Does he get killed?”

Skip this stinker, its not worth a moment of your consideration.


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