Mindhunters is about a group of FBI recruits training to become FBI profilers. For their training they go to a remote island so that they can profile a mock killer with fake murders. Things go awry when the profilers themselves end up dead.
The movie makes you believe that part of profiling is the ability to notice a few habits and characteristics about a person and thereby run down their whole personality and life history as well as their precise actions in certain situations. The people in this movie were dying in traps set up based upon their profile. The problem with that is that the traps were so elaborate that the targets would have to do exactly what they are expected to do in order to fall victim to the traps. It went beyond profiling into the realm of ESP. Sure we all have habits and hang ups, but who can guess exactly what we would do in a given situation based upon that; let alone knowing what half a dozen people would do in a given situation? The plot was good, the mystery was good, but the traps were just too elaborate and too unbelievable.
The movie makes you believe that part of profiling is the ability to notice a few habits and characteristics about a person and thereby run down their whole personality and life history as well as their precise actions in certain situations. The people in this movie were dying in traps set up based upon their profile. The problem with that is that the traps were so elaborate that the targets would have to do exactly what they are expected to do in order to fall victim to the traps. It went beyond profiling into the realm of ESP. Sure we all have habits and hang ups, but who can guess exactly what we would do in a given situation based upon that; let alone knowing what half a dozen people would do in a given situation? The plot was good, the mystery was good, but the traps were just too elaborate and too unbelievable.