I'm going to admit this right away, this won't be an extensively long movie
review. This holds no bearing on what, essentially, is a good movie, I just
thought I'd warn you right now.
The fact remains that there isn't all that much to say about this movie. As
you all may know by now, it's a flick about a university guy in his last year
who's going off to law school who is accepted into a secret society known
as "The Skulls" (hence the title of this flick). The fact that there are now
certain things he can't share with his best friend creates a rift between
the two of them, and this makes neither one, nor their female compatriot,
very happy.
And so does our happy hero find himself immersed in The Skulls. He goes to
parties with young ladies (can we say "cheap whores" boys and girls?) provided
for them, he and his fellows are given exquisitely nice and expensive sports
cars, a rules book (which has many many many many rules and sub-sections for
said rules), and even a key with which they may use to enter the building where
The Skulls hold their secret meetings and recruitments and all.
There we stand until the best friend is accidentally killed by one of the
protagonist's Skull friends (his "soul mate"; they are supposed to compliment
eachother personality-wise, and they are supposed to look out for eachother)
and so does insanity ensue. Confusion arises, paranoia becomes rampant, and
betrayal and violence and the threat of violence set in.
Overall, your average day in the life of some poor shmuck who wants to get
out of a super-secret organization that's not supposed to officially exist.
All sarcasm and pseudo-wit aside, the movie is actually pretty good. Above
average, actually. The acting is above-par, and the suspense is genuine.
As naive and as stupid as the protangist may seem, he's actually quite shrewd
when everything boils down to the essentials of act-or-be-killed. His lady
friend is about up to par with him on the smarts scale (though, seeing as she
and his best friend are both against him joining The Skulls, she's got a wee bit
more intelligence than she does). The best friend is smart, but still stupid
(his death is due to his foolishness, as well as the hotheadedness of the "soul-
mate" who accidentally kills him). Everyone in this movie is stupid in some way,
and while that makes it realistic, it also makes it somewhat annoying at times.
The plot itself, while not exactly overly basic, isn't too complicated either.
In all due truth, that's a bit of a problem. I would have liked it to have been
a bit more complicated, with a few more twists and turns in it. As it stands,
however, the twists were enough to make it interesting and to keep my attention.
The verdict? An above-average movie aimed at the college/university crowd.
If you've got a few bucks to spare and you want to see a movie, this one isn't
a waste of time. You won't feel as if you've just seen the best movie in the
world, and you won't be raving about it unless someone asks you about it (ie: you
won't walk up to someone and say, "Hey, guess what movie I just saw?"), but
you certainly won't be able to say it sucked, you just won't be able to say it
was amazing, either.