Rotten
Initially tolerable but increasingly stupid.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
The Skulls
Getting in is easy. Getting out is a killer.
2000 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Rob Cohen
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The Skulls
Overview
A senior at an Ivy League college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a price.
Director and cast
- Rob Cohen Director
- Joshua Jackson as Lucas "Luke" McNamara
- Paul Walker as Caleb Mandrake
- Hill Harper as Will Beckford
- Leslie Bibb as Chloe Whitfield
- Christopher McDonald as Martin Lombard
- Steve Harris as Detective Sparrow
- William L. Petersen as Ames Levritt
- Craig T. Nelson as Litten Mandrake
- David Asman Cast
- Scott Gibson Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
9%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie's unintentionally played like a comedy all the way.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Rotten
In an otherwise boneheaded hour and a half of intrigue and silliness, The Skulls does offer one of the more memorable lines of dialogue in recent movies.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten
The contrivances pile up more quickly than snowfall in a Buffalo winter, and the ending is so lame that it provoked guffaws from theater-goers attending the screening along with me.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
The Skulls? More like numbskulls.
Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
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