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''[[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.
The plot of ''Mindhunters'' is much like Agatha Christie's novel ''[[And Then There Were None]]'', although the audiences mostly saw this as blatant unoriginality. ''Mindhunters'' ultimately ended up being a flop, keeping in line with the director's past achievements.
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* [[Badass]]: Gabe.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Played with. {{spoiler|Gabe is believed to be the killer for most of the movie, and is one of only two survivors. Nicole, the only other minority (though not explicitly stated as one, her distinct Latin accent gives her away) survives for a good chunk of the movie.}}
* [[The Chessmaster]]: The mysterious killer.
* [[Death Trap]]: The preferred method of the mysterious killer.
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* [[Ontological Mystery]]: The movie has definite shades of this. The characters do know ''why'' they're on a secluded island: as part of an FBI profiler training exercise. It doesn't take long before they're completely cut of from the outside world and it turns out that there's a killer amongst them who starts murdering them one by one.
* [[Plot Hole]]: After repeatedly remarking that the simulation "doesn't feel real" without his gun, Vince pulls out and [[Dramatic Gun Cock|dramatically cocks]] a gun and he'd concealed in his wheelchair. All the other characters berate him for this, as they'd been specifically told not to bring weapons. However, just minutes earlier, Nic and LL Cool J's character can clearly be seen bearing handguns as they {{spoiler|carry JD's corpse.}}
▲* [[Post Mortem One Liner]]: "I guess we know what his weakness is....bullets."
* [[The Profiler]]: Only Harris is an actual profiler, the rest are trainees.
* [[Profiling]]: And how!
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* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|Jake Harris, and arguably Gabe.}}
* [[See Water]]: The final underwater gunfight is a particularly egregious case of this.
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* [[Serial Killer]]: A fictional one and a real one.
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: Not ostensibly focused upon but present in some form or another, nonetheless, and basically end up being what do most of the characters in:
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** 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.
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* [[Take That]]: In-universe example: the Navy has left a bunch of rubber ducks floating around with geeky glasses and 'FBI' scrawled on them.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: 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.
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