mindhunters

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297284

mindhunters sacrifices everything--and i mean *everything*--in its attempt to provide you with just one more plot twist.  i was quite frankly expecting the bad guy to turn out to be christian slater, somehow miraculously resurrected from having been flash-frozen and shattered into pieces.  it was just that kind of movie.  the story does not so much develop as bludgeon you into submission.

a good plot twist is a magic trick.  misdirection, rather than the simple withholding of information, is key.  the sixth sense was a magic trick.  the prestige was a magic trick. the usual suspects was great, but not a great *magic trick*, as the key data points that would point to the twist were not available until the big reveal.  and then there is mindhunters, which was just  a series of plot pointers uttered by whichever of the characters that still happens to be alive.

mindhunters gets one wristwatch set to RIGHT NOW.