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Top Movies - Nerve Movie Review (Spoiler Free) - Movie Reviews Sites
article2016 Reviews,A dangerous game of “truth or dare”, minus the truth, surfaces on the Internet. Would you join to play or simply sit back and watch the others perform dangerous stunts?
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi/Thriller
Director: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Cast: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Miles Heizer, Kimiko Glenn, Machine Gun Kelly, Juliette Lewis, Samira Wiley & Brian Marc.
Run Time: 96 min.
US Release: 27 July 2016
UK Release: 11 August 2016
German Release: 08 September 2016
Going on with movie reviews I need to catch up with, my newest post will be an analysis of Henry Joost and Ariel Schuman’s science-fiction thriller. Nerve sets up a world that mirrors our modern everyday life, examining our dependence on communication technology and the different Internet communities, especially the art of trolling. By doing so it tries to send a moral message to the viewer but fails at communicating it because of the third act’s weak delivery and the unsatisfying ending. Nevertheless, it did manage to entertain me throughout its full length and I left the theatre semi-satisfied.
Venus “Vee” Delmonico (Roberts) is a good high school senior and somewhat of a wallflower, dreaming of going away to the California Institute of Arts but is afraid of telling her mom (Lewis), who is extremely overprotective of her. Vee’s best friend Sydney (Meade) is a popular high school cheerleader and invites her to an Internet gaming community called Nerve. Nerve is separated into two factions: “Watchers”, people who pay to watch the players, and “Players”, people who are given dares to do in exchange for money.
Sydney is slowly becoming more prominent as a “Player” on Nerve and teases Vee about not having the guts to play until she humiliates her in front of her high school crush J.P. (Marc). Vee decides to play herself, against the advice of her friend Tommy (Heizer), and soon meets fellow player Ian (Franco) with whom she starts a romantic relationship. When things get dangerous and unprecedented Vee decides to quit Nerve but the “Watchers” won’t let her go.
Jessica Sharzer, the screenplay writer, did a decent job at adapting the novel into a script and the directors managed to implement it into a fast paced and adrenaline rushed picture. Nerve tried marketing itself as a modern mix of mystery and science fiction, by repackaging a teenage drama in an action story, but it still follows the typical plot lines of those movies and thus it didn’t offer anything new. That doesn’t mean the film is boring or hasn’t got creative merits because I did like how the narrative unfolded and that alone had a high entertaining value! I am just saying that in it’s core this was a clichéd high school drama trying, very hard, to be something more.
My biggest issue with this sci-fi thriller was the fact that none of the characters in it were interesting. There had been attempts at creating compelling back-stories but they never worked out. It was the chemistry between Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, playing Vee and Ian, which saved the movie and made it enjoyable to follow these two teenies through their adrenaline filled night. Emma Roberts was not only extremely attractive, but she simply had fun being in this film and thus gave a good rendition of her character. The same goes for Dave Franco, who impersonated the persona of bad-boy Ian. It is clearly visibly that he just enjoyed the time he shared with Roberts on screen and that is what made both of their roles so likeable!
Emily Meade and Miles Heizer, on the other hand, had been irritatingly dull and their characters felt overused. Meade portrays Vee’s best friend Sydney, a selfish and insecure cheerleader, who tries to use Nerve as means to get easy online fame. Heizer plays Tommy, a guy that is secretly in love with Vee and masquerades as her best male friend, with the writers trying to give him an interesting personality by turning him into a hacker.
What I liked most about Nerve, though, was its cinematography. This film looked gorgeous and made use of bright, strong neon colours and lights in nearly every scene, to manifest the modern era it plays in. I also appreciated Michael Simmond’s approach for a different cinematographic technique, by telling the story from phones or computer devices with cameras, even if that style was more distracting than aiding at times.
Rob Simonsen composed the soundtrack and I loved how the electronic music pulsated through the story since it perfectly fitted the genre! the soundtrack got a little bit too dominating at times but I thought it suited this kind of movie.
Verdict: In the end, Nerve is a fun, fast-paced but expendable mystery- thriller with an alright script. While the plot is highly entertaining, it does expect the viewers to turn off their brains occasionally and tries to be more than what it is; an action induced high school drama. The message about the dangers of online anonymity that this movie tries to communicate fail because the story does not have a closure with real consequences, for those that ran the gaming site. And while it had two very good leads with fantastic chemistry, the rest of the characters were boring, irritating and clichéd. The truly impressive part of this film is the cinematography and the music, which are beautiful to look at and listen to. I will give Nerve a 6.5 out of 10 and recommend it for a one-time watch.
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