Truth or Dare (2018) is a horror film from Blumhouse that chronicles the "scary" reality of a Truth or Dare game coming to life.
Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, and Violett Bean star as the leads in this film, and while Lucy Hale or Violett Bean's performances are nothing to write home about Tyler Posey is probably the worst actor in the bunch, if not the entire movie. The characters they portray are boring, lifeless and just silly iterations of stock horror movie characters like the "Jock", "Goodie Two Shoes", "Promiscuous Best Friend" just to name a few. There's absolutely nothing memorable about any of them and it's legitimately difficult writing about any of them despite only seeing this film last night.
The nuance of the film comes from the dumb deformed grins that shows up on characters faces when they're participating in the game, and while I found it somewhat creepy at first it got rather old fast and there was parts in the movie where it came off as just laughable rather than creepy.
The writing gets remarkably lazy as they weave through the plot and realize that they need to start kind of making up rules as they go in order to cover up the island sized plothole that realistically they could just answer Truth to everything and the movie would be a whole lot less interesting.
At the end of the day this is just a Diet Final Destination, where the major draw to this is not the characters but the prospect of seeing them die in absurd ways but the movie couldn't even do that right.
The only props I'll give this movie is there is some parts where the film acknowledges just how ridiculous it is and there's a handful of tongue-in-cheek jokes that gave me a few laughs. That's not nearly enough to say that this movie is worth checking out though.
Maybe check it out if you see it on TV or something, but this movie isn't worth spending money on.
Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, and Violett Bean star as the leads in this film, and while Lucy Hale or Violett Bean's performances are nothing to write home about Tyler Posey is probably the worst actor in the bunch, if not the entire movie. The characters they portray are boring, lifeless and just silly iterations of stock horror movie characters like the "Jock", "Goodie Two Shoes", "Promiscuous Best Friend" just to name a few. There's absolutely nothing memorable about any of them and it's legitimately difficult writing about any of them despite only seeing this film last night.
The nuance of the film comes from the dumb deformed grins that shows up on characters faces when they're participating in the game, and while I found it somewhat creepy at first it got rather old fast and there was parts in the movie where it came off as just laughable rather than creepy.
The writing gets remarkably lazy as they weave through the plot and realize that they need to start kind of making up rules as they go in order to cover up the island sized plothole that realistically they could just answer Truth to everything and the movie would be a whole lot less interesting.
At the end of the day this is just a Diet Final Destination, where the major draw to this is not the characters but the prospect of seeing them die in absurd ways but the movie couldn't even do that right.
The only props I'll give this movie is there is some parts where the film acknowledges just how ridiculous it is and there's a handful of tongue-in-cheek jokes that gave me a few laughs. That's not nearly enough to say that this movie is worth checking out though.
Maybe check it out if you see it on TV or something, but this movie isn't worth spending money on.
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