Writer Kevin Williamson (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer) and director Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Spy Kids) make excellent collaborators with this highly entertaining high-school-set thriller. The plot concerns alien beings invading the staff, with a band of teenagers as the heroes. The teens are, of course, mismatched to represent all of the different social cliques, and we get all of the usual Breakfast-Club characters, but the cast is actually very watchable. Josh Hartnett first made waves in his role as the Burnout, Elijah Wood is excellent as the geek, and Jordanna Brewster is totally sexy as the Miss Popular. Both Williamson and Rodriguez were hot young properties in Hollywood when THE FACULTY was released (and both have since lost some steam); the result is great stuff for sci-fi fans.
Review of The Faculty
