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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.

 

 

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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.

* [[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.}}

* [[The Profiler]]: Only Harris is an actual profiler, the rest are trainees.

* [[Profiling]]: And how!

 

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