Nerve
6/10
I was
so close to giving this a 7/10 but the more I thought about the movie
Nerve the more the ending didn't sit right with me. This will have
some spoilers by the way. Jasmine suggested I check this out and I
couldn't quite remember what it was until it got started. I
remembered the trailer and whoever made it needs to be fired because
it really didn't serve this movie justice. Its not as bad as that
trailer was. This stars Emma Roberts as Venus Delmonico. She's living
at home with her mom played by Juliette Lewis and she wants to leave
New York and go to art school in Los Angeles but since her brother
died her mother is in full “No one leaves me alone!” mode.
Her
friend Sydney played by Emily Meade tells her about this new game
called Nerve. Imagine all those dumb challenges kids do these day but
on a larger scale and money is involved. You can pay to be a watcher
and just watch and chip in to watch people do stunts within a time
limit or be player n which you do the stunts. Sydney does stunts and
makes money and after being an asshole to Venus she decides to try
this game herself. The rules are everything you do must be recorded,
you do not get the money if you fail or bail, and you absolutely can
not contact cops. Her first dare is easy. Kiss a stranger for five
seconds. Of course she finds Ian played by Dave Franco and not some
ugmo. Minutes later he sings loudly in the restaurant. Turns out he
is playing to. And he is good. One of the top in the game.
The
rest of the movie is a series of dares and people like seeing the two
of them together. The stunts get progressively more dangerous
especially with this guy named Ty played by rapper Machine Gun Kelly
who is also trying to get to the top of the rankings. The movie moves
along well enough until the end it just comes to an abrupt stop with
a moral message that kinda makes you feel bad for watching the movie
which is weird because the movie is about watching people watch
people do things that are crazy or dangerous. This is still a cool
movie and shot beautifully but that ending was far too heavy handed
for me.
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