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Ahh... to only SMELL the buffet. This inevitably leaves one deeply wanting. This films bursts out of the gates and you begin to settle in for a great and deeply exciting ride that never really happens. This film (though entertaining) is like being on a roller coaster, climbing 70% - 80% up the "big hill" or the same towards the "corkscrew" and then breaking down. The park crew has to come and get you off the ride and we all walk down ladders and go home. See the feeling. This film never crests the big hill and there is no exhilarating "drop." It becomes very typical in that the first 30-45 minutes endeavor to build a power, invulnerability, and impenetrability in the SKULLS and the University and then a few collage kids are easily able to unravel all of their security, mystique, and global power in a few prankster type acts. Very silly! This is frustrating. It feels very unique and intriguing in the start and then again, it is like the producers went to the "B" film file and pulled out a canned ending and stapled it to the first 45 minutes of this picture. Much more development of the SKULLS and their organization and its mystique would have blessed this work immensely. Instead it turns into another "BIG important father with money manipulating the American system to make life how he demands." Ideas are stolen from other works like "The Firm" and are by now very much unoriginal (using some little known LAW to dethrone the powerful Lawyers).Read full review
I recommend it! Although better script writers could improved the base story line, it apparantly has a genre following as 2 or 3 incarnations have been made already. Being a thinly veiled take on Yale's Order of the Skull and Bones Society,The Skulls stretch a secret society's danger to democracy (and for that matter reality) a bit. How much? All I know is that both Presidents Bush were members as was Bob Kerry. During the last election both were asked about the society and both (Kerry, especially) were irritated by the questions. So how much does it mirror reality? We don't know, it's a secret society! I believe those who distrust government will be satisfied with the film, those who trust government may be introspective or just laugh. Still, it's a good tale of a student who loses control of his very existence a la Cary Grant in North by Northwest.Read full review
What a great ride! The combination of the late Paul Walker and the amazing Actor Joshua Jackson (if you get a chance, check him out in another fav if mine "Lonestar State Of Mind" with "Vampire Diaries" actor Matt Davis (Alaric Saltzman) this film tells the story of the secret society known as The Skulls...which apparently hosted 3 US presidents..Joshua and Paul do an amazing job bringing this film to life..filled with lies, murder and betrayal this film is sure to give you the roller coaster ride you've been longing for..
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For this movie, The Skulls, you truely have to be a conspiracy theorist. It shows in history that 3 United States Presidents were all members of this elite secret society. Also during this last presidential race both George W and John Kerry were both members of the Skull and Bones at Yale University. The story written by John Pogue was exceptional and riveting. I was on the edge of my seat the entire movie and was hooked as a fan ever since. I now own all three, The Skulls 1, 2, and 3. It has been money well spent and movies I can watch over and over again without getting bored. There are tons of "life" ironies afterall, We live by the rules..We die by the rules.
I had never seen the movie before until I recently bought it. The movie has a great idea with the secret Skull society, but it wastes it. Some of the movie characters are really dumb for attending a highly educated school. I didn't think the movie truly resolved the main problem that occurs early in the movie. Something terrible happens and justice is not served properly, unless you believe in an eye for an eye. I thought the plot point after the car chase downgraded the movie's standard of justice. I would buy it cheap, not worth more than a rental price. It's a good movie to watch once, but not for repeat viewings.
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