Mindhunters is a 2004 American crime slasher film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Kathryn Morris, LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Patricia Velásquez, Clifton Collins Jr., Christian Slater, and Val Kilmer.

His training approach consists of assigning them variants of real investigations, including sets, props, and actors, to play out each scenario.

The Navy uses the island to train for hostage rescue and outbreak scenarios; it features target dummies, vehicles on mechanical rails, and small-town storefronts.

At the base, the group realizes that the broken watches and clocks found at each scene point to the fact that there is a real killer nearby who has co-opted the exercise and is hunting them down.

They awaken to discover that the killer murdered Mindhunter Rafe, draining his blood and leaving his severed head on a table.

Gabe, Lucas and Mindhunter Sara search for Harris, only to find him and two other agents dead in a hidden storefront.

Knowing that the killer was relying on timed mechanisms and remotes, as well as enjoying watching their anxiety under pressure, she changed a clock to appear slow by fifteen minutes, and covered it in a powder that glows phosphorescently under blacklight.

Reasoning that the killer would not be able to resist setting the clock to the correct time, she grabs a black light, finding the marking powder on Lucas' hands.

Struggling to find more thrilling targets, he joined the FBI and planned to kill his fellow profilers, the only people he thought would be "worthy prey".

Renny Harlin was originally attached to direct the film adaptation of A Sound of Thunder based on Ray Bradbury's short story, but left to helm this movie instead.

Phillippe's then-wife, Reese Witherspoon, was offered to play Sara Moore, but she turned it down and Kathryn Morris was later cast.

Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and Gary Busey were all offered the part of Jake Harris, but they rejected the film before Val Kilmer agreed to do the movie.

Locations included Amsterdam (Amsterdam-Noord), The Hague, Delft, beach town Zandvoort, training village of the Police Academy in Ossendrecht and Radio Kootwijk on the Veluwe heath lands in the Gelderland province.

Mindhunters received generally negative reviews and it currently holds a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the consensus states: "A retread of Ten Little Indians that lacks the source material's wit.