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A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The best way to describe this high school science-fiction horror tale is a cross between the 'The Breakfast Club' and 'The Thing'. From the premise to the execution, it is clear that director Robert Rodriguez, the man behind the vampire-horror 'From Dusk Til Dawn', is drawing inspiration from other cinematic entities of its genre, as well as the classic teen flicks from the John Hughes era. The evidence could not be more clearer, especially with writer Kevin Williamson of 'Scream', 'Scream 2' and the teen drama television series 'Dawson's Creek' working by his side. So while the film never aims to be anything original nor does it present itself in a way to be taken too seriously, it is Rodriguez's campy execution that keeps thing moving without slipping into the cracks of tedium. After all, the genesis of this film is a battle between high school kids and their teachers may or may not be members of the extraterrestrial race. Set in the fictional town of Herrington, Ohio, the film introduces high school students Casey (played by Elijah Wood), a photographer of the school's yearbook who is constantly a target of meat-headed bullies, Delilah (played by Jordana Brewster), the vindictive editor-in-chief of the yearbook, Stan (played by Shawn Hatosy), Delilah's boyfriend and star quarterback who's quitting the football team run by his tough-as-nails coach Joe Willis (played by Robert Patrick) to focuses on his academics, Stokely (played by Clea Duvall), a goth girl who is rumored to be a lesbian, Zeke (played by Josh Hartnett), a rebellious punk who is repeating his senior year while selling drugs and IDs to his fellow classmates, and Marybeth (played by Laura Harris), a new student. When a mysterious alien parasite from an otherworldly planet begins spreading around the school campus and invading the body of the teachers and staff, these kids must work together to fight against this mysterious invasion. That is if they crack the code and find out who the queen is. The inspirations of classic novels like 'Invasion of The Body Snatchers' and John Carpenter's The Thing are crystal clear. Even the character make numerous references of this and other science- fiction works in the dialogue. While Robert Rodriguez sorely lacks fuel in the tank of originality, the best thing he manages to accomplishes is keeping clever, even when he more often than not burns through the playbook of overused high school tropes. The characters, each of whom resemblance archetypes of the 'The Breakfast Club', are gifted with some clever and at times, funny dialogue to make how thinly drawn they are. Josh Hartnett's character Zeke, in particularly, grants us with the most laughs. Kudos go out to his scenes with Mrs. Burke, played by Famke Janssen, which marks the most laugh-worthy moments in the film. But is the plot that marks the film's biggest strengths. The first half focuses on the buildup and growing paranoia as the characters witness this bizarre behavior of the teachers and staff, before building up an intensifying climax in which the battle between the characters and the gory alien showdown rages on. In the process, the story doesn't proceed without leaving sprinkles of suspense trudging through each scene the characters are in danger. Although the entire second half, particularly in one scene, too often reeks of familiarity of The Thing, Rodriguez know how to put on a show with his gruesome special effects once the action hits a boiling point. As for the cast, everyone is mostly solid, nothing really memorable -- unless considering the creep demeanor of Robert Patrick displaying a sinister portrayal of a football coach who always feels like he is on another planet.The Faculty is fun, campy science-fiction horror bound to please teens and adults thirsty for a gory alien invasion scarefest not meant to taken seriously. By no means does the film even closely match up the par of the cinematic bolts Rodriguez draws inspirations from. Of course, to expect something on that level would not be too reasonable. After all, this is not Ridley Scott working behind the camera.

........................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FL Don't you just hate those "friends" who belly laugh harder than anyone in the theater, and then, making conversation after the movie, you ask them, "Wow, you really enjoyed that, didn't you?" and they snap back, "What, are you nuts? That was the worst flick I've seen in years!" Well, that's definitely NOT me. Despite priding myself on usually disliking a lot of the JUNK churned out by Hollywood, after seeing the FACULTY, and looking into the depths of my soul, I must admit, begrudgingly, it is a rather entertaining movie! Fast-paced, shrewdly pressing all the viewer's buttons, in the right order, it does exactly what its producers want it to: Take you on a cinematic ride! Still, I'd like to issue TWO Brief Warnings: 1) If You're a Salma Hayek FAN.....Don't Blink! (You just might miss her altogether!) T.O.S.T. = About 4 or 5 minutes! 2) DON'T See IT a Second Time! It's like driving a car with no air in your tires! Believe me, I've tried it...Just doesn't work! ...Certainly, the first time, though, you should have some good fun! 6*...ENJOY/DISFRUUTELA! (Even if it's ONLY ONCE!) Any comments, questions or observations, in English o en Español, are most welcome!

The Faculty (1998): Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Cast: Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster, Josh Hartnett, Laura Harris, Clea DuVall: Suppose to represent false identities where aliens poise as teachers for no real reason other than these films love picking on teenagers. It feels like an attack on teachers and authority with the students retaliating at these aliens poised as teachers. Why don't the aliens just stick to the old fashion stealing of the lunch money? These aliens constantly drink water as their source of life. Somebody needs to get them drunk. That ought to screw with their world domination plan. Elijah Wood plays a wiz kid who senses that something is wrong. Laura Harris plays a sunny girl who tries desperately to fit in. Josh Hartnett sells illegal items. Jordana Brewster rounds out the cast discovering a body in an office closet. Lame plot followed by routine hack fest where teenagers become cafeteria food to aliens. It is as juvenile as a horror film can get and contains as much stupidity as the screenwriter can pack in. Directed by Robert Rodriguez who applies the same graphic action that ran rampant throughout his From Dusk Till Dawn, with fine visual effects but acting is bad. For a superior recommendation I recommend the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which was much more fun and inventive. Pointless blood and guts should be avoided by everyone, including aliens. Score: 3 / 10

I really, really hated this film. No, I didn't just hate it. I utterly despised it. It has a promising start but it turned out to be beyond dreadful. The script by Kevin Williamson is abominable. The film is essentially an incredibly poor rehash of the 1956 and 1978 versions of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "The Thing" (1982). I will say that it is not shy about acknowledging its debt to these earlier and infinitely better films or the literary works on which they were based. I freely admit that it has never bothered me when a film is not entirely original or even downright derivative if it uses the relevant plot devices in a clever way, something which this manages to avoid doing in practically every scene. It's actually more than a little impressive that way.Generally speaking, it is not a good idea to remind the audience of good films when they are watching your very bad one. I imagine that it was supposed to be a satire of the aforementioned films and other alien invasion stories but it completely failed on that score as well so at least it is consistent in its awfulness. On the bright side, Robert Rodriquez's direction, while not exactly stellar, is better than the writing, though it could hardly be much worse. There are also some nice visuals but so bloody what? What annoyed me about the film more than almost anything was that it could have been an excellent film as the idea of aliens taking over schoolteachers has such potential. I think there was at least one teacher at every school that the students joked was an alien so the satire on school life could - I stress "could" - have been very effective. Instead, we get what is essentially an awful feature length episode of "Goosebumps" or "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" with drug use and the occasional use of the "f" word thrown in for good measure. Yay. Speaking of which, the scene in which the characters use the drugs to determine who is an alien, based on the classic blood test scene from "The Thing" (1982), is probably the worst scene. It was just awful, hysterical nonsense. I just wanted them all to shut up, frankly. It was a microcosm of the entire film in that respect.One of the few things that I actually liked about the film was some of the acting, particularly from Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster, Bebe Neuwirth, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie and Robert Patrick who steals the show even though he has very little screen time. Laura Harris is as bad as I expected her to be from having watched her in the hilariously awful early 1990s Canadian teen drama "Fifteen" in which she was by far the worst of a generally very bad bunch of actors. The other actors are pretty much forgettable.Overall, this is a thoroughly horrendous horror film. Discounting "The Room" which was so bad, it's good, "Carry On Emmannuelle" is the only film that I watched in 2015 that I thought was worse than this catastrophe. From now on, I would not be surprised if I flinched whenever I heard or read the word "faculty." I only finished it because I promised myself a few months ago that I would always watch films all the way through, irrespective of how bad they were. Christ, I love writing scathing reviews.