Everybody knows I hate Dimension Films. They have a ton of great films in their vaults but they never release them. When they do release something it's always the stinkiest piece of filth possible, something like THEY or HELLOWEEN: RESURRECTION. So when they don't release a film, when they just pull it from their release schedule and nobody hears anything about it ever again, surely that must be a good sign, right? It must mean that the film was too good to be released by Dimension or something.
Well, that happened with Renny Harlin's MINDHUNTERS a few months ago.
And my conclusion above is wrong. Because this film is exactly what we've come to expect from Dimension: a piece of crap. It tries to somehow combine the serial killer thriller with the slasher genre. I can see the pitch meeting: "It's like SE7EN meets FRIDAY THE 13th!" "OK, that's, liek, brili000nt, let's totolly mek it!"
What we get is a jumbled mess that combines the most annoying and done to death aspects of both genres for maximum pain to the audience. There's plot holes so big not even Lexington Steele could stuff them. Characters do just the worst illogical bullshit all the time. Then there's the dragged out montages of the profilers doing stuff (for no reason) set to what should probably be really hip and tres cool industrial metal or something but what actually comes off as incredibly lame, inappropriate and silly. That happens a few times. I also got a good derisive laugh out of the KUNG FU FIGHT towards the end. I almost expected bullettime but I guess they didn't have the budget for that. You also gotta love oneliners like: "I guess we found out his weakness - bullets!" It's really, really, terrible. To be fair some of the effects were OK, there's a few gutted cats hanging around that look pretty gruesome and a corpse that looks like Frank at the end of HELLRAISER is made to dace which was pretty funny. But for everything that works you get a cheesy CGI explosion were you can practically see the actors pull silly faces in front of a greenscreen. Oh and there's a death by instant freezing where they amateurishly CGI-grafted the actor's face in the dummy or whatever they blew up.
This is one film that can rot in Dimension's vault for all I care.
What's really sad is that Renny Harlin probably got the EXORCIST gig based on the stench ... I mean "strength" ... of this abortion. Be afraid, be very afraid!
Well, that happened with Renny Harlin's MINDHUNTERS a few months ago.
And my conclusion above is wrong. Because this film is exactly what we've come to expect from Dimension: a piece of crap. It tries to somehow combine the serial killer thriller with the slasher genre. I can see the pitch meeting: "It's like SE7EN meets FRIDAY THE 13th!" "OK, that's, liek, brili000nt, let's totolly mek it!"
What we get is a jumbled mess that combines the most annoying and done to death aspects of both genres for maximum pain to the audience. There's plot holes so big not even Lexington Steele could stuff them. Characters do just the worst illogical bullshit all the time. Then there's the dragged out montages of the profilers doing stuff (for no reason) set to what should probably be really hip and tres cool industrial metal or something but what actually comes off as incredibly lame, inappropriate and silly. That happens a few times. I also got a good derisive laugh out of the KUNG FU FIGHT towards the end. I almost expected bullettime but I guess they didn't have the budget for that. You also gotta love oneliners like: "I guess we found out his weakness - bullets!" It's really, really, terrible. To be fair some of the effects were OK, there's a few gutted cats hanging around that look pretty gruesome and a corpse that looks like Frank at the end of HELLRAISER is made to dace which was pretty funny. But for everything that works you get a cheesy CGI explosion were you can practically see the actors pull silly faces in front of a greenscreen. Oh and there's a death by instant freezing where they amateurishly CGI-grafted the actor's face in the dummy or whatever they blew up.This is one film that can rot in Dimension's vault for all I care.
What's really sad is that Renny Harlin probably got the EXORCIST gig based on the stench ... I mean "strength" ... of this abortion. Be afraid, be very afraid!
