Mind Games

2001

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

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IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 513 513

Director

Richard Standeven Photo
Richard Standeven

Top cast

Fiona Shaw Photo
Fiona Shaw as Frances O'Neil
Chiwetel Ejiofor Photo
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Tyler Arnold
Cameron Stewart Photo
Cameron Stewart as Fireman One
Finbar Lynch Photo
Finbar Lynch as DCI Chris Medwynter
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920.29 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 40 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by r_j_t_kelly 9 / 10

A new angle on a familiar tale

Reviewed by sparkle_kai 3 / 10

Fans of British crime drama should skip this one

As a fan of British crime drama and police procedurals I clicked on this readily enough. Five minutes in was ready to turn it off but battled through hoping it would get better. Unfortunately it did not. With performances going from wooden to cringe inducing and over the top to the point it almost had me laughing. The story itself plods along and there are holes in the story which I will not go into to keep this spoiler free. It is predictable and the reveal of the killer and 'twist' ending holds no surprises. The dialogue and direction are also poor and this movie drags interminably. There is so much great British drama to choose from, this is not one of them.
Reviewed by richard-kelly-2 9 / 10

Superb Thriller with an Incomparable Actress

Lynda La Plante's credentials in crime stories featuring strong female characters would be hard to improve on. Following her seminal "Prime Suspect", "Mind Games" is an intelligent and multi-faceted perspective on the role of the mind and the brain in investigation and in life. The central character (played by Fiona Shaw, without question one of the greatest actresses in the world) uses not just her professional psychological profiling qualifications to inform her work, but also draws on her own faith (the character was previously a Roman Catholic nun) to help her in understanding what the mind can do and what it cannot overcome. It is a magnificent film: exciting, original and quiet, with a uniformly excellent cast who bring a real freshness to the genre.
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