Considering our current president and his father are alleged to be members of a secret society similar to one in the film, there was a real opportunity to make an insightful movie about the operation and influence of these shadowy organizations. Instead, director Rob Cohen and the screenwriter have fashioned an illogical, poorly acted, substandard genre flick, designed to appeal to an adolescent audience with no political sophistication. The characters are all cardboard cutouts, and I felt embarrassed for the "professional" actors here, like Craig T. Nelson and William Petersen. Petersen's "Virginia" accent is howlingly unconvincing. Plot elements don't add up, there's no real payoff, and the "action" sequences are woeful and ineptly filmed. The film looks like it was edited with a meat cleaver. This is really an awful movie.
Review of The Skulls
