Hakubi This movie is the most fun I've ever had watching a thriller. I had the pleasure of seeing it in its 35MM glory back in 2005 when it finally saw it's US release. It is absolute gold. Every thing is enjoyable, from the ridiculous dialogue and plot to the sometimes outrageous performances. LL Cool J deserved an Oscar for this.

Rickting Mindhunters is an And Then There Were None type story about FBI trainees trapped on an island where one of them is a serial killer killing the others off in a series of Rube Goldberg machines so ludicrous they make Final Destination look restrained. Mindhunters is not a film you rent for a good time. It's something you rent for a laugh. In that area, it delivers. Don't get me wrong: this is a pretty terrible film. But it is fun. I Love murder mysteries and that automatically makes this watchable, especially as And Then There Were None is one of my favourite books of all time. It's got a good premise and the odd exciting set-piece, as well as some interesting ideas but mainly it gets by on being fun. Eventually the fun wears off during the disappointing finale. The movie does not make a hint of sense, Renny Harlin's misjudged direction makes the film look extremely artificial and over-stylized and the acting is weak as well. At the end of the day, it's a B movie. Mindhunters is sometimes exciting and tense but sadly fails to ever be genuinely scary or make you truly care about its characters. LL Cool J again proves to be a likable presence however. The main fun of Mindhunters is watching the utterly preposterous murder sequences and wondering how such an idiotic script was ever greenlit. It's quite fun and hardly terrible, although an argument that it's particularly good would be hard to construct or justify.4/10

John If LL Cool J is in a film it means that acting skills are optional. The rest of the film requires you to believe that someone had the remarkable ability to set all the events up knowing the script in advance. Because the events that occur could only have happened if you could see the script in advance. So these clowns are supposed to be FBI agents. Yet vending machines magically dispense things in a highly suspicious fashion and the agent is not surprised by this? This is a true idiot's delight.Sadly this has every type of amateur associated with it. There are truly horrible elements created solely just to create screams from the audience. It probably took a crew time to set up that scene, but somehow we're supposed to believe that the killer was able to set up this entire elaborate scene all by himself. And then the great finale, which would have made Jacques Cousteau envious. It's a comedy in the absurd. Leave it to these clowns to take exaggeration to the max. It takes a special type of low talent hack to come up with this pitiful waste of film. I give it a 3 for the actors who try to do what they can with this script. They weren't terrible, just made to do some very dumb things.

SnoopyStyle Jake Harris (Val Kilmer) runs a training program for FBI profilers. It's above and beyond the normal gun training. He takes the team to Oniega Island off the coast of North Carolina to take part in a simulation. Philadelphia P.D. detective Gabe Jensen (LL Cool J) tag along to observe. They are assigned a serial killer called the Puppeteer. However the killings soon become real.It's an Agatha Christie murder mystery crossed with the modern trend of serial killer and FBI profilers. The problem is that it's so completely fake. I'm not saying murder mysteries are always about realism. There is something over the top ridiculous about this that drains the brains out of this thriller. I'm not invested in guessing who is the real killer. It becomes how crazy each perfectly timed kill gets. That has a bit of value but not that much.