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The
title makes this movie sound like it will be a horror concept
movie doesn't it? Well you'd be right and you'd be wrong....
The
Skulls tells the story of a masonic like secret society at
a US College. Now when I heard this was about a secret society
I admit I expected an expose type story with all manner of
political intrigue.
But,
hey its the teen market this movie has been pitched at and
it is teens that are in it, so the makers have bottled it
and made it to the lowest common denominator in thinking that
the teen audience won't be interested in an intelligent intriguing
movie.
Buy
the Poster!
Instead
what we are served up is a ho-hum seen it all before a zillion
times murder mystery.
And
the manner that we are served up this murder mystery is so
jam packed with cliches that they haven't left themselves
any room for anything original. Our hero in the movie is Joshua
Jackson who starred in Dawson's Creek. The role he is handed
is that of a down at heels orphan who has to take crappy jobs
to pay his way through college, yaaawwwwn, feeling sleepy
already?
Going
back to this supposedly secret society , in the movie everybody
knows where the headquarters is at! Eh? I thought secret societies
headquarters were supposed to be secret as well, not this
big huge gothic mansion that could probably be identified
from space. New members to the society get branded on the
wrist that just screams "look at me I'm a member of a
secret society called the skulls". Would it not have
been better to brand them on their body someplace less obvious?
As
I mentioned already, original ideas are thin on the ground.
Take this for instance, within the space of ten minutes they
repeat themselves and reuse a terribly cliched technigue TWICE!
and guess the technique? Yup our hero is saved by some unseen
offscreen helper, boring.
So
to sum this movie up, lazy nad dull. I just hope the movie
itself remains a secret and very few people find out about
it to go see it.
Oh
yeah nearly forgot the horror reference at the start, yes,
it must be horrific to watch this!
Tall
Guy
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