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DVD : The Skulls (Collector's Edition)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $9.99 Amazon.com's Price: $6.49 You Save: $3.50 (35%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Universal EAN: 9780783242309 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0783242301 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 24, 2000 Running Time: 106 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: March 31, 2000 Sales Rank: 13411 MPN: MCAD20782D Related Items: Editorial Review: Product Description: Deep within the hallowed walls of ivy leagues most prominent campus there exists a secret society where power and influence are bred. Only a few are chosen to join the group where presidents are groomed wealthy bloodlines bond and devious plots are hatched. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/28/2006 Starring: Joshua Jackson Leslie Bibb Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Rob Cohen Amazon.com: Think of the Skulls as a collegiate Freemason's society--an ultrasecret organization that opens the doors of power to a few lucky Ivy League students, including school rowing star Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson), a poor kid with a misspent youth. "If it's secret and it's elite, it can't be good," cautions his journalist roommate, but the lure of lavish gifts and cabal-like ceremonies in torch-lit stone chambers is too much to resist--until his roomie is murdered and his own Skull "soulmate" Caleb Mandrake (Paul Walker) is the number one suspect. There's a campy kick to the initiation ceremonies, ancient rituals in dungeonlike alcoves filled with haze and shadow, performed by enthralled frat boys, but as Jackson flounders at the center of a Skull conspiracy it spins into ludicrous melodrama. See the college president become a thug for the Skull godfather! See street punks become high-tech criminal masterminds! See the conspiracy collapse under its own absurdity! Jackson is pretty much a dud as the well-meaning hero, but Walker, with flashing eyes under furrowed brow, is mesmerizing as a haunted rich kid torn between a ruthless, overbearing father (Craig T. Nelson) and his conscience. Director Rob Cohen drives the film at a galloping pace and fills it with foreboding images, but his humorless solemnity finally buries The Skulls in a heap of clichés. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Secret Society ThrillerThe Skulls was a lot better than expected. More than a decent time-waster, the script is well-written, and the plot a historically plausible what-if about a secret society of the rich and powerful, who pull the strings not just in society, but on each other. The story is about a poor but streetwise kid struggling to pay his tuition at Harvard. He displays abilities that set him above the crowd, so is invited to join the Skulls, an elite group of sons of Harvard alum, all of whom ... Read More Rating:  - Good looking but horribly dumbThis film is nicely shot and has a really good look to it, but these can't save it from a terrible script, wafer-thin plot, generally poor perfomances and lack of a single character with whom one could sympathise. Avoid. Rating:  - interesting thriller involving a secret societyPeople, people, people! Please! I was reading some of the reviews for this movie. Seems some people rented/got this movie to "discover" those ancient secrets of such secret society or the Skulls and Bones. You really think they'll reveal them here? Anyways, Luke is offered a chance to join the Skulls. The thing is that Luke is different from the other pledge brothers. He isn't a legacy nor does he come from old money. So, this is a rare opportunity of a lifetime. In ... Read More Rating: - Great trashThis film is great, trashy fun. Of course, it's impossible to take it seriously. Inspired supposedly by Yale's Skulls and Bones, the movie has such incredible, unbelievable situations, that to enjoy it one has to see it as an unintentional comedy. My best scene in that sense would be when Joshua Jackson is interned by the baddies in a madhouse. It's such a ridiculous scene that you can't help laughing at it. The second-best situation would be the duel, and the father, telling his son after being shot ... Read More Rating: - [Three-and-a-half out of five] Updated attempt to copy Brotherhood of the Bell!Modern day attempt at old time expose of Secret Societies / Fraternity and not bad at all. Except for excessive profanity in orginal print that will keep some otherwise favorabley impressed away. TV version has a bit cleaned up. Supposed to be about Bush/Clinton/Gore/ Robertson cult known at Yale University as Skull and Bones. Good bit of research done by Hollywood Director, but nowhere near as effective as Oliver Stone's JFK or Michael ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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