Mindhunters

Well this afternoon was Mindhunters. Mind numbing more like it.

The film starts by convincing you that we are observing a group of elite FBI profilers. The cream of the crop, the brightest of the bright.

They enter a simulation which has been set up to challenge them to work as a team, and when the first member is killed, they all collapse into a heap of paranoia, blaming each other, and having emotional outbursts. What happened to the elite profilers.

What I was hoping for was something of a more psychological thriller...
it would have been better if after the first murder, they immediately start doing what they know how to do (assumption) - profile the murder and murderer. If they had done this for the first two killings, and THEN deconstructed into emotionalism and paranoia when what they know how to do does NOT work, and their members continue to be assassinated in a relentless parade of more and more incideous traps, the film would have gotten into my head in that "you're all gonna die and there is NOTHING you can do about it" type way.

The punch line is not obvious, which was ok.

This film rates a rousing "eh".

Star Wars next week!!! Yippeeee!!

til next time
Penny