Suspend your reality for 2 hours and watch this movie. Seriously, this movie is a quintessential bad 90's movie. Please read my other reviews and don't trust a word. It's clear, just from my 10/10 review of this movie I have terrible taste. It is an interesting idea that loses credibility in the telling. The fact that no one is sure indicates that if they are more than mere myths, they are a lot more secret than depicted here. Maybe secret societies exist, and maybe they don't. Nelson gives a wonderfully nefarious performance as the chairman of the Skulls and Caleb's father. He gets great support from Paul Walker (`She's All That', `Varsity Blues') as Caleb Mandrake, the spoiled rich kid trying to step out of his father's shadow. He plays the part with just the right combination of idealistic zeal and moral grounding. Joshua Jackson (`Cruel Intentions', `Urban Legend') is excellent as Luke. The list of inconceivability goes on ad nauseam. The new members are branded on their wrist and we are supposed to believe that they will never be seen by anyone without their wristwatch on. New members get brand new $50,000 automobiles and $100,000 in cash, as if no one will notice this sudden burst of good fortune. So, Duh, anyone seen entering the building must be a Skull.
The building where the secret meetings take place is prominently marked with a Skull, and only members have keys to the building. Yet, Pogue and director Rob Cohen present it in such a way that they may as well be advertising their identities on TV. This is supposed to be a secret society where other than the members themselves, no one knows who the members are. Marshals') has conjured up a good moralistic tale, but it is so full of ridiculous premises that it becomes laughable. When he discovers that one of the members has committed a felony, he is torn between his desire for wealth, his loyalty to a friend, and his conscience. This is a dream come true for Luke, who spends much of his time fretting over the hundreds of thousands in student loans he is incurring. Members of this society have the doors of power, wealth and influence thrown wide to them. He is hoping to be called for membership into the Skulls, a secret society of great status and power. Luke McNamara is a small town boy of modest means attending an Ivy League institution that is never really named but is obviously Yale. Though it poses a good moral dilemma, `Skulls' is presented in such an implausible way as to render it crippled at birth.
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