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The_Film_Cricket 'The Skulls' is a movie so unbelievably ridiculous that you keep watching just to see what idiocies the movie will have the nerve to come up with next. Here is a thriller so predictable that you find yourself counting down the seconds until the line 'It's over' is uttered (and not by the audience).Joshua Jackson stars as a poor college kid named Luke McNamara who works in a cafeteria, rides a bike and is the star of the Varsity rowing team. Those seem to be his only activities because the college in this movie is one of those Movie Colleges where no one ever goes to class and everyone looks like a blue jeans model. The name of this institution is never mentioned even though it takes place in New Haven and the school logo is a big 'Y'.The school has its very own secret society named The Skulls (obviously suppose to be Yale's Skull and Bones but changed probably to prevent a lawsuit). Luke is tapped for The Skulls via a phone call that has him running from one phone to the next and drinking water that renders him unconscious.The following scene had me falling out of my chair laughing, The Skulls new recruits wake up in a watery basement each in their own individual coffin (which are laid on their own individual island) where they arise in their new lives. Then they have The Skulls logo burned into their wrists and are given the rule book. They are also given a new sports car, a new watch (to cover the branded logo) and a hooker at their pledge party.The Skulls' clubhouse looks like something out of a Cecil B. Demill biblical epic with stone walls and columns and arches and that strange 'Y' hanging over the proceedings.Luke's best friend Will (Hill Harper) gets too curious about The Skulls and steals the clubhouse key and rule book from, Luke's pledge brother Caleb (Paul Walker). This leads to Will's death which we can see coming because 1.) he's too nosey and 2.) he is the black guy in a movie that requires someone to die.Luke begins inquiring about Will's death, which is followed by the inevitable warning not to get too nosey. The death is ruled a suicide but when he finds evidence that it was murder at the hands of one of the club's head honchos, Luke is drugged and sent to a mental institution for psychiatric evaluation.I wasn't all the surprised that the movie contained a car chase but I swear I slapped my hand to my forehead when the movie ended with Luke and Caleb agreeing to pistols at ten paces on the campus grounds (they have a concrete porch intricately carved just for the proceedings).My mouth was agape during much of The Skulls, not so much for it's sheer stupidity but for it's willingness to tack on even the most ridiculous plot point. This is a movie that really does leave you asking 'Y'.

LeonLouisRicci Badly acted bad movie about a Secret Society that is hardly as secret as they think it is. Or maybe not. After all they brand the logo on the members wrist, but wait a minute, this is only one of the many numb-skull things that happen in this terrible try at whatever it is.Whatever it is, it ain't. The only thing worse than the acting is everything else. It is a ridiculous rant about class WAR and pseudo-friendships. A useless, unrelentingly, awful exercise in stupidity and silliness that culminates in one of the worst endings in screen history.This could very well be listed as one of the 100 Worst Films of All Time. It is painful to watch and one wonders how such a clunker ever got made and released and accessing the memory banks to comment on this abomination actually hurts as much as watching it. Ouch!!!

elshikh4 The intention to show this supposed community, and utilize it in a thriller where the poor good guys beat the rich and influential evil guys, is great apart. The script is smart with breathless succession (It's written by John Pogue who wrote U.S. Marshals, a very good action thriller, 2 years earlier). I love (Rob Cohen)'s work in anything. He nails the right way to "tighten" things on screen, with all the senses of the word. The humid colors, the narrow cadres, the hot pace…etc. they are all his elements to make an exciting time. This movie is no exception. But why I felt that it was like fancy dinner party with only cheap rusk to serve ! (Joshua Jackson) can't be the lead. He's uncharismatic and uninteresting to the max. Among the ones chosen for the skulks who were entering the center for the first time/namely the movie's extra, he was the least noticeable. I'm no fan of (Tom Cruise) but the young him should have been more fit for such a role (a la he did in The Firm once). Further, although looks are deceiving but by a look to the movie's poster you'll grasp that (Paul Walker) was catchier than (Jackson). It's an irony wasn't for the sake of the lead, his persuasion, or our interaction with him.(Hill Harper), as the friend, is one annoying actor who many viewers thank god that he got killed earlier in the movie. He was in bad corner too concerning the way his role was written. The character, so hastily, hates how his friend becomes a Skull, for no logical reason (I got the feeling that he was gay, loving his roommate secretly, refusing that he goes to another class and another "friend" !). As you see the bad writing perfected with the bad acting to produce something between bad and laughable !(Steve Harris) as Detective Sparrow was a joke. He looked like another student yet fatter, doing his job usually or badly ! Long story short, save the old actors (Craig T. Nelson and William Petersen), this movie has a major casting, and acting, problems. But maybe it was all due to a lack of budget. Notice well that there was no sex scene between the lead and his love, since – naturally – there are no bankable stars in the first place. So, it tells you that (Rob Cohen) wanted to make this movie anyway, despite the small production, and with small stars. Yes, the presence, or not, of sex or nude scene can tell you a lot about a movie's production these days !The emphasis on the yellow color was terrible. I know that (Rob Cohen) wants us to live that sick phase of the lead's life, however not to the extent of making us sick ourselves! I noticed that many directors many times intend to use this color in specific exaggeratedly in their movies or TV shows lately. Is it a way to prove how artistic their work is? Is it a way to cut down the budget ? Is it a way to hide defects in the image ? I really don't know. What I do know is too much of something is bad enough !Generally, it's a very good thriller with different atmosphere and major casting problem maybe caused by the budget. I wanted to say to hell with the big names, but this cast forbids me. It's obvious that The Skulls just needed more skills to be more effective and, why not, believable.