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68This lightweight thriller has an enjoyable premise.
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67Antielitist, anti-hypocrisy, pro-feel-good entertainment.
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50Cohen drives the film at a galloping pace, but it's not fast enough to outrun its absurdity.
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50You might not want to pay top dollar for The Skulls, but at the right price, it delivers.
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40Screenwriter John Pogue and director Rob Cohen expose only the dullness of their own imaginations.
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40Not quite good enough to leave more than a vaguely pleasant, vaguely disappointing aftertaste.
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It contains, perhaps, one pinkie-toe bone of surprise in its skeleton of cliche.
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38A fast, slick, outlandish fiasco that starts out well and then seems to drop right off a cliff.
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38Brainless thriller.
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38When it comes to being brainless, The Skulls is at the head of the class.
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30Dopey "thriller."
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30An exercise in unintentional farce.
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30Looks plain silly without an appropriate tone or sustaining context.
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30Less interested in politics than in profitably flattering the suspicions and resentments of its intended teenage audience.
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30Initially tolerable but increasingly stupid thriller.
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25So ludicrous in so many different ways it achieves a kind of forlorn grandeur.
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25So inept it's almost entertaining.
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20Energetic and thoroughly brainless.
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20Full of conspiracies, all The Skulls lacks is a brain.
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20A silly, hackneyed college suspenser put across with all the contrived banality of a bad '70s TV movie.
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10This one's a pile of crap that won't start.
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This skull is brainless.
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0Never graduates above the boneheaded.
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0Plummets into the realm of ludicrous failure.