Nerve

Nerve

Rating 6 out of 10

I'm in Minnesota for work and had a rain day.  My supervisor Jim and I could go outside and enjoy the 72 degree weather.  Instead we decided to go into a dark movie theater for a couple hours.  We intended to go endure the shaky cam and see Jason Bourne beat up bad guys only to find out when we got to the theater the 445p show was "canceled".  Faced with having to go back outside and breathe fresh air we looked at the board and saw Nerve was scheduled to start at 5p.  Sold.

Clearly Jim and I are not the demographic the studio had in mind when they gave the movie the green light.  We thought we were going to be the only two in the theater until four teenage girls came in during the previews and sat in the back probably creeped out that two grandpa's were in the same theater.  One crazy thing about this Cinemark theater is the movie was scheduled to start at 5p.  Instead between the commercials and previews the opening credits started at 5:28p!!! Twenty eight minutes of previews and commercials.

Oh yeah, the movie.  This movie plays on the social media craze between twitter, you tube and maybe a touch of video games.  A blacklist illegal game has taken the younger crowd by storm where people can play the game where faceless moderators dare the person to do crazy things and broadcast them with their iPhones for money.  Each dare gets a little crazier and pays a little more. Vee (Julia's niece Emma Roberts) is a repressed high school girl who can't even talk to her football stud guy crush is talked into playing the game.  She quickly is paired up with Ian (Dave Franco) and they become fan favorites.  The dares become more and more dangerous.  The game is very illegal yet everyone in NYC seems to be watching and the police have no clue.  Vee see's this is no simple game and becomes determine to shut it down.

The two leads are likable and overall the movie is fairly harmless and mildly entertaining. I would think if you are over the age of about 25 you may want to wait for RedBox or Netflix.