The film moves along at a cracking pace, and Joshua Jackson leads the cast with an excellent and mature performance as the embattled Luke. Luke's soul-mate, the tortured Caleb Mandrake, son of the Skulls's chairman, is played by the dashing Paul Walker who gives a performance of great charisma. All-round, the cast is strong, and the performances solid, helped no doubt by the very good script. The plot has some interesting twists, and is never boring, for the director Rob Cohen (who directed the excellent The Fast and the Furious, also starring Paul Walker) keeps it moving. The music is good, the scenery and background understated but very effective, and the whole idea of the film is brilliant; there are undoubtably secret fraternities of a similar kind in American colleges today, and it is a fascinating thing to speculate on what might go on in them, and how deeply-rooted they are. Certainly however, The Skulls is a excellent film, exciting, fast-moving, and intriguing. Admitedly, it lacks a sense of humour, but then, it isn't really that type of movie. Enjoy it for what it is - it's well worth a look at.
