Robert Rodriguez
The Faculty

THE REVIEW

Imagine an army composed of a fake dark lesbian, a pimple-faced guy who only knows how to play football, a know-it-all dealer, a simple-minded blonde, a vengeful hottie, and the usual loser of the moment. All high school students. All eager to rid their school of their teachers, infected by a parasite and now turned into aliens.

The plot is laughable, just like the film, the fifth feature by Robert Rodriguez, released in theaters in 1998. A story that's full of holes (in every sense of the word) that aims to entertain the audience with the typical jokes of the American director (even though The Faculty is the first film not scripted by Rodriguez, but in this case by Kevin Williamson). From the very decision to set the entire story in a school among more or less stupid kids (to be honest, stupidity triumphs), there's a clear sense that this film is nothing more than a vain attempt at entertainment for the younger crowd.

The "alien" scenes that only create hilarity, insignificant jokes, poorly crafted photography, a storyline that doesn't hold up, are all unclear. All this despite the fact that Rodriguez (already the author of the hilarious "From Dusk till Dawn") employed young yet decent-level actors: Jordana Brewster, Laura Harris, Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett and the more well-known Christopher McDonald and Salma Hayek.

An intentionally exaggerated bad film, where the aliens seem "normal" and the "normal" seem alien. The positive aspects of the film are completely nonexistent, which I consider one of the most aberrant things to hit cinemas in the last 15 years. To be avoided.