10 More Dumbest Villain Plans In Movies

In this And Then There were None-style mystery, a group of FBI profilers go to an island for a training exercise and start being picked off by one of their own, with the killer eventually turning out to be Lucas (Jonny Lee Miller). Rather than killing most of the victims directly, he sets up various traps based on his own profiling of his colleagues, and he leaves clocks around indicating exactly when each murder is going to happen.

For example, the first one is aimed at JD (Christian Slater). Lucas rationalizes that because JD is a natural leader, he'll be the one to step forward and press a ringing alarm clock. When JD does this, he sets off a chain reaction that triggers a canister of nitrogen to freeze him to death. But anyone else could've chosen to press the alarm clock (it's hardly a show of leadership!) and besides, if JD had stepped even slightly to the side, he would've been fine.

None of the other murders are quite that stupid, but they all rely on a never-ending series of coincidences. No matter how clever Lucas was, there is no way he could've predicted the behaviour of his teammates - and the timing of said behaviours too - with such accuracy and given that this maddeningly stupid plot actually works for most of the film, Mindhunters is a film so ridiculous it'll have you howling with laughter. It was an interesting idea, but not well executed.