Should you watch Nerve?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Nerve
Film · 2016
Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.
The sides of Nerve
- An online game that pays for dares
- Watchers betting on strangers
- A shy high school senior going first
Nerve is good for you if…
- you like dares that go up a level every hour, with money on them.
- you like a ride through Manhattan traffic with a blindfold on.
- you like a quiet teenager deciding to stop watching from the sidelines.
Nerve is bad for you if…
- you want the technology on screen to work the way real technology does.
- you want a calm film and this one is one long night of dares.
About: peer pressure · anonymity · courage
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