Movie Review: Nerve (2016)

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    I got nothing for this one, let’s just get right to it shall we?

Plot Summary - High Schooler Vee (Emma Roberts), after being humiliated in front of her crush, decides to sign up as a player for an online version of Truth or Dare. The game is simply known as Nerve, and the idea of it is that players complete dares for money, and watchers pay to watch and committee vote dares for the players. When she runs into fellow player Ian (Dave Franco) and has to team up with him, they take a tour around New York as the game ultimately begins to unwinds into danger as they have to figure out how to win and survive.

Pros - The cast is pretty solid, as they have a decently diverse bunch of characters to help tell the story. The look of the film is pretty interesting as well, as it diversifies the look of the city, and the way the world looks through the eyes of the game as well. Some of the stunts they have to pull off in the film are intense as well, as a few of them had me clutching the seat intensely.

Cons -  The story is not great, and it gets told in rather clunky methods. Nothing about it really surprised me, and it honestly misses out on a lot of potential with the concept. It also really doesn’t try and adhere to any sense of logic, it just says things about how the game works and just expects you to go along with it because technology. The conflicts of the characters are also not great, as again their motivations are just broad stroked. Just like Bad Moms, there was also a ridiculous number of musical montages.

Final Score - 5/10

This is a film that is the definition of mediocre. It relies on style over substance and while it isn’t the worse movie ever, I’d call it watch at your own risk.

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