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It's the premise that makes this film garbage.

posted 11 years ago by TheatreNachos
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No, the FBI is not going to set-up a "profiling test" on an island with a made up killer. Why? Well, money for one. They're not going to have a budget to set-up an elaborate role playing experience for these people...complete with a forensics lab?? Ridiculous.

No, the FBI has interviewed killers, logged the facts of hundreds of cases...so many that these profiler "students" would simply be given the facts of a particular case, be asked to come up with a profile, and since the FBI knows who committed the acts, could check their accuracy against the killer's profile. All this could be done in a nice air-conditioned office. Why would they make-up a killer (the puppeteer) of which they have no facts when they could use real cases, in controlled exams? A la South Park: Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

Everything else is horrible too: Hacker boy (Does anyone remember that movie?) Jolie's ex had the worst accent pretty much ever, DNA tests coming back in an hour, the character motivations...oh my god, the writer is such a hack in this regard. The elaborate set-ups that would take hours to put together...where did the killer find the time? Why is everyone so willing to believe one of their own could preform such a feat within hours? How would the supposed killer find the time? Answer: they wouldn't.

Pretty much lame, cliched, predictable garbage from the get-go.

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[–] gothor 10 years ago

Yeah. Renny Harlan is a good director, but man he gets paired with some awful scripts.

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[–] Dauw 10 years ago

The script is pretty awful and beggars belief, but if you turn off your brain it's a decent popcorn movie.

CSI ain't realistic either, but it's entertaining in a forgettable way. Some times that's just what you need.

Hacker boy (Does anyone remember that movie?)

Yes! And it's awesome, in the cheesiest possible way.

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[–] GhostRiver 10 years ago

Yes, the premise makes this garbage. Then everything else further contributes.

[–] oscarunger 9 years ago

the first scene where they get "killed" by the serial killer, with special effects galore for no apparent reason, was pretty silly when you think about it....then it gets sillier. wanted to like it

[–] sunezno (269) 2 years ago

A lot of these things were answered in the movie.
The teacher clearly goes above and beyond with his classes and tests, which is why the detective (LLCJ) was sent to check this out (to find out if Kilmer is off his rocker or whatever). So it's intimated at least that Kilmer's is the only class that does this annual island trip. He says that the Navy lends the island to him for one weekend a year (sounds more like a favor than a rental). Maybe Kilmer pays for these extras on his own, or maybe the FBI pays, but either way, the price probably isn't exorbitant.

The forensics and computer lab is already there in the building for the Navy's normal use, so that's not something extra that they're footing the bill for just for the class's one-time benefit.

And "the elaborate set-ups that would take hours to put together...where did the killer find the time?" -- the killer clearly explains that at the end: when everyone was knocked out with the coffee drug, that gave the killer time to set up all of the rest of the traps (they were out for most of the day, giving them plenty of time).

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17865) a year ago

So it's like a Netflix movie.