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Movie Profile
The Skulls
2000 - Rob Cohen J. Miles Dale
Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) is a college student with aspirations to eventually become a lawyer. He attends Yale along with his girlfriend Chloe (Leslie Bibb) and his best friend Will (Hill Harper). Luke's friendships hit the rocks when he is invited to join a secret society known as "The Skulls." After Luke passes the first part of the initiation process, he has a falling out with Chloe when she realizes that he has become a Skull. As a member of the Skulls, Luke is partnered with Caleb Mandrake (Paul Walker), and the two eventually strike up a friendship. Caleb's father Litten Mandrake (Craig T. Nelson) is the current Chairman of the Skulls, and his partner Senator Ames Levritt (William Petersen) takes an interest in Luke. Eventually Will, who has been conducting research on the Skulls for some time, discovers their secret ritual room. Will gets caught in the ritual room by Caleb and in the ensuing struggle he falls and is knocked unconscious. Caleb is ordered to leave the room by his father, after which one of Litten's cronies breaks Will's neck. The skulls manage to move the body and make it look like Will committed suicide in his dorm room.
- Christopher McDonald
- Barry Bostwick
- Bryce Johnson
- Craig T. Nelson
- William Petersen
- Dr. Hill Harper
- Philip Akin
- Maria del Mar
- Joshua Jackson
- Paul Walker
- Leslie Bibb
- Nigel Bennett
- Noah Danby
- Len Cariou
- Clare Kramer
- Alison Sealy-Smith
- Dean McDermott
- Steve Braun
- Brooke D'Orsay
- Shaun Sipos
- Karl Pruner
- Toby Proctor
- David Purchase
- Chris Trussell
- John Bayliss
- Martha Burns
- Irene Dale
Genres:
Thriller
Release date:
2000-03-31
External links:
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Rotten Tomatoes
20 Critic reviews
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
September 07, 2011 read full article
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Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
Initially tolerable but increasingly stupid.
March 05, 2007 read full article
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Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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.
March 22, 2002 read full article
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Entertainment Weekly
April 01, 2000 read full article
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Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
If, in fact, Skull and Bones was ground zero of a powerful conspiracy, The Skulls would be a great disinformation tool. After seeing this, no one could ever take it seriously again.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
It's so ludicrous in so many different ways it achieves a kind of forlorn grandeur.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Susan Wloszczyna
USA Today
The Skulls? More like numbskulls.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Jessica Winter
Village Voice
The preview audience chatted happily all the way through the movie, indicating its destiny as a perennial rental favorite for frat-house living rooms across the U.S.A.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Jan Stuart
Newsday
Hare-brained suspense thriller.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Robin Rauzi
Los Angeles Times
As a breakout role for WB star Jackson, The Skulls doesn't fare as well.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Tom Keogh
Film.com
The Skulls looks plain silly without an appropriate tone or sustaining context.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
The Skulls is such a generic, automatic-pilot movie -- seemingly stitched together out of disconnected outtakes from the USA Network archive.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
Shot from one of the worst scripts to make it to the big screen in recent memory, it represents the sludge at the bottom of the Hollywood barrel.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Dave Kehr
New York Times
The Skulls is less interested in politics than in profitably flattering the suspicions and resentments of its intended teenage audience.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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F.X. Feeney
Mr. Showbiz
Director Rob Cohen has crafted a bouncing escape yarn stocked with sharp twists and twisted characters.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Tom Long
Detroit News
It's hard to get outraged about a movie this bad.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
The Skulls could have been called The Numbskulls.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Steve Murray
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Skulls is shot and edited with enough verve to make you forget what a load of junk it is.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
To call this movie simply absurd is almost to pay it a complement.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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