Mindhunters (2004)
6/10
And then there were....
7 April 2008
Warning: Spoilers
In wikipedia,you can read at the end of the long "And then there were none" entry: "although not a direct adaptation,"mindhunters" closely follows the storyline of the book".It's true that some scenes bear more than a distant resemblance with Christie's classic thriller ,but it is not the only one.It's closer ,anyway to the play (like all the versions but the Russian one ) than to the book..It's mainly glaring in the last scenes where any Christie's reader will compare the three characters'situation to that of Vera ,Wargrave and Lombard.

That said ,"Mindhunters" is not devoid of interest.You can also feel the "Saw" series influence when the "time is running out ".The crimes display some originality and the characters are a bit less cardboard than they usually are in this kind of flick.In the grand tradition of "Psycho" ,the most famous actor (Slater) is killed in the first third.He should have studied the domino principle in his FBI school.
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