Nerve

Name: Nerve
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: July 27, 2016
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Emma Roberts, Kimiko Glenn, Machine Gun Kelly

2016

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Lionsgate | Release Date: July 27, 2016 | PG-13

Starring: Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Emma Roberts, Kimiko Glenn, Machine Gun Kelly, Marc John Jefferies, Miles Heizer

Summary: A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers."

Director: Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 96 min

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Kyle Smith

Jul 28, 2016

The sharpest, wildest and most unpredictable thriller I’ve seen this year. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jul 28, 2016

The complicated truth is that the Internet’s dangers are entwined with its pleasures, the allure of instant fame, the illusion of contact with masses of people. Nerve is the first movie to capture all that, and the result is a successful and memorable thriller. Read full review

Steve Davis

Jul 27, 2016

Up until now, Roberts and Franco have been second-tier actors in the industry food chain, but their first-rate performances in this better-than-average genre flick exude something called charisma. After this film, the two of them may graduate from watchers to players. Read full review

Brad Wheeler

Jul 27, 2016

Nerve looks fabulous and the pace is evenly adrenalized, which makes up for clichéd characters, a concocted premise and commentary that is a bit on the nose. Read full review

Anna Smith

Jul 26, 2016

With its engaging story, energetic soundtrack and slick production values, Nerve is an easy watch for restless young minds. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Jul 26, 2016

Fortunately Schulman and Joost keep the film visually engaging.... All that busyness onscreen distracts somewhat from the impression that Roberts and Franco don't look much like teenagers, although they form a fairly good team as long as they’re pursuing specific challenges rather than sharing their nascent emotions for one another or attempting to unravel the intricacies of the game. Read full review

Ty Burr

Jul 28, 2016

There’s a line between enjoyably stupid and stupid-stupid, and Nerve sails over it right around the halfway mark. Read full review

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hornysoul

Sep 22, 2018

É um sólido thriller que entretém o público. Eu adorei o filme, honestamente. Não sei se a ideia de as pessoas estarem envolvidas num jogo online foi original, mas funcionou perfeitamente com os atores certos e com uma história bem trabalhada. Dave Franco e Emma Roberts provaram ser líderesÉ um sólido thriller que entretém o público. Eu adorei o filme, honestamente. Não sei se a ideia de as pessoas estarem envolvidas num jogo online foi original, mas funcionou perfeitamente com os atores certos e com uma história bem trabalhada. Dave Franco e Emma Roberts provaram ser líderes com uma química notável.… Expand

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solosode

Sep 12, 2016

It's a good movie to me. I had a good time, the neon colors makes all the movie beautiful, and you don't know how could finish. The end... pfff it would be better.

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diegonelli

Jun 18, 2017

An entertaining film, short and a cool cast. I like Emma Roberts so I watch all her films hahah. Was waiting a bit more for the end, but it was still good. :)

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PipeC

Sep 12, 2016

The Stunning Surprise Of The Summer

"Nerve" is the homonymous film adaptation of the novel written by Jeanne Ryan, in the same way as the movie, it externalizes a rooted orientation to the young audience. The dynamic is simple: Watcher or Player? "Nerve" is an addictive virtual game,The Stunning Surprise Of The Summer

"Nerve" is the homonymous film adaptation of the novel written by Jeanne Ryan, in the same way as the movie, it externalizes a rooted orientation to the young audience. The dynamic is simple: Watcher or Player? "Nerve" is an addictive virtual game, within which, you should choose be observer or player. If you decide to be observer will have to subscribe and challenge to the players, something not so novel, perhaps, because it is in what we are immersed day-to-day. If you put yourself in risk to be a player, prepare to meet each challenge proposed by the "anonymous users" and to earn money, gradually, Is it suggestive? To some extent, what young people do not know is: Who does the game restrict? considering that, despite there are not rules, certainly, there is one fundamental: If you denounce them, you die, What are they hiding?. The simplicity of its premise goes together almost immediately with the audience due to the parallelism of that apparent utopian world with ours. Aspiring to be more than an entertainment product, the film of Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman succumb in the dangers of Internet and the own morbid fascination that entail to the collective madness, satisfactory at least in the most of its duration by neon lights, fast pace and charming leads.

The film transfers the monotonous characters of high school and their teen conflicts of youth films to an illusory and accelerated atmosphere, in where they interpret their characters in an attractive way. Nonetheless, the exquisite casting decision transforms and materialize their roles in an imaginative and even realistic journey into submission. After Vee (Emma Roberts) is lost in the paradise of popularity, money and love, it will be only a matter of time to challenge her maturity and wisdom when she feels cornered against a wall of threats and betrayals. It is here, where the stable pace of the plot falls down abysmally, giving short but necessary minutes of relaxation, minutes remunerate with an ending non-apt for people with heart problems. Nevertheless, the background of "Nerve" goes beyond the Internet and its insecurities - theme addressed by several summer films, are they warning us about something bad? -, the mechanism is (invisible) Internet privacy to create the unstable world full of vices, obscenities and addictions. The morbid curiosity of people, potential misuse of social networking sites, lack of maturity and autonomy, avarice, betrayal, materialism and thousands of ethical values more that the film tries to mention of a way so relaxed as lucid. You will be surprised with the amount of social problems hidden in the movie and it sadly solves them of unrealistically.

As well as "Nerve" gets an absorbent atmosphere and a frenetic pace, it boasts of fundamental cinematographic flaws. At first instance, the proposal of the first scene reminds us the great-looking recording style employed in "Unfriended" or "Open Windows", where the operating system of a laptop or whichever media is reflected on the screen so that spectator takes a relative perspective. With running of the run-time, digital interfaces, constant neon lights camouflaged in the black night, (visibly) youthful soundtrack and the aggressive progress of the plot they lose the value that it deserved, limiting themselves to the thought of artificiality and lack of self-control of a couple of young people. By this, I do not mean that the result was embarrassing, to the contrary, it fascinated but wears down potential, which had helped it to transform in an outstanding thriller. It must be highlighted that, if it hadn't been for the basic and predictable treatment in terms of its visuals and the nuanced plot that they impregnated to its powerful and influential premises, and surely, it would get the name of 'cult film'.

Apparently, the latest releases will improve the disappointing streak of summer films, which is coming to an end. "Nerve" is the best teen film with suspense and action that I've seen, and certainly, it is the surprise of the summer - surprise very similar to "Unfriended" in April of the last year - because of it entertains, startle and make us reflect about our participation in that vertiginous virtual world. Nerve knows we’re already playing the game.… Expand

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JyroJyro

Sep 5, 2017

An interesting premise that aims to appease both social media addicts and those who despise social media. The script is cliché and the acting is pretty awkward, but you'll be too distracted by the dizzying pace of events to even notice most of the time.

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BrianMcCritic

Oct 26, 2016

This is a middle of the road thriller that really never seems to get you fully on board. There is very little character development which leads to the audience not becoming invested through the more thrilling dares. It isn't a complete waist of time just the finale drags. C+

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Broyax

Jun 9, 2022

Un film pour adolescents et adulescents, c’est-à-dire si bas de plafond et tellement con qu’on n’en croit pas ses yeux ni ses oreilles… et pourtant le sujet des réseaux sochiasses et de l’influence qu’ils ont sur tous les jeunes trous du cul, laissait espérer (sans doute) a priori quelqueUn film pour adolescents et adulescents, c’est-à-dire si bas de plafond et tellement con qu’on n’en croit pas ses yeux ni ses oreilles… et pourtant le sujet des réseaux sochiasses et de l’influence qu’ils ont sur tous les jeunes trous du cul, laissait espérer (sans doute) a priori quelque chose d’un minimum intéressant.

Mais ça se cantonne à l’esprit « Jackass » (en moins dégueulasse quand même) et ça baigne dans la naïveté bête et simplette au fil des défis plus idiots les uns que les autres que ces **** cons et petites connes accomplissent pour faire des vues et du fric (du classique chez les youteubés et autres influenceurs de mon cul, bien entendu.

En tout cas, c’est rapidement aussi ennuyeux que désespérément stupide, malgré les deux bonnasses et notamment la blondinette Emma Roberts qui porte assez bien son nom, ma foi (de jolis roberts apparemment !). Pas assez voyeur cela dit, y compris pour le spectateur le plus motivé : cette petite daube de film vole au ras du caniveau et tombe directement dans la bouche d’égoût la plus proche. On ne sait pas comment ça finit, de toute façon, on a zappé !… Expand

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