By Emilio Frenk
Directors: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
Cast: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Miles Heizer, Kimiko Glenn, Samira Wiley and Juliette Lewis.
Rating: Average.
This summer has been well know for thrillers like “The Conjuring 2” and “Lights Out”. Now it comes “Nerve”, a movie that involves the cause and effect of social media this days and it was a huge dissapointement.
The movie starts with “Vee” (Emma Roberts) a high school girl who is invited by her best frend Sydney played by Emily Meade to play “Nerve”.
You’re asking yourself What is Nerve? The answer it´s a game where you are either a player or a watcher and you take dares for money and advance to rounds until there is a winner.
Vee agrees to play the game and gets inmersed of playing this truth or dare games. In one of the the dares he meets Ian (Dave Franco) another player who like Vee is trying hard to advance to the next round.
After Vee gets more involved in the game, she will then realize the secrets of the game and she begins to be manipulated. Now either she will keep playing or her life and the others that surround her will be at risk as well.
The movie´s first act is really interesting and begin to engage me but as the movie advanced alienated in me and in a certain way I felt disgusted due to the stupid obsession that the movie manages.
One of things I admit of “Nerve” is that the premise was really interesting, doing a huge criticsm how people have been using social media in this days. But neither the execution and the script don´t work.
Dave Franco, like his brother James is a really talented actor and so as Emma Roberts who we have seen in movies like “We´re the Millers” and “American Horror Story” delivering very good performances. But this was not the case here and there performances at some point stopped being real.The dialogue on the script was so on the nose and preposterous that it stopped being believable.
The direction by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman who both made the 2010 thriller “Catfish” and it was a very good thriller and scared audiences. Here the result is totally the opposite and it didn´t work.
The execution was very poor and is the main reason why I cannot recommend this film.