{"id":27732,"date":"2018-04-04T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T02:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27732"},"modified":"2018-04-04T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T02:21:46","slug":"nerve-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/nerve-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerve (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s surprising how good \u201cNerve\u201d is because it\u2019s main centerpiece involves risky stunts that I worried would become the crutch for the film\u2019s narrative. Instead it becomes a crucial element in helping to explore the characters that we\u2019re introduced to during the course of the film. Feeling like a technological twist on David Fincher\u2019s \u201cThe Game,\u201d and while it has nothing new to say about the internet (everyone has phones! Everyone is always watching someone!), it still comes out a winner when the credits close.<\/p>\n

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Emma Roberts plays Vee, a high school graduate preparing for college who is afraid to leave her mom after the death of her older brother two years earlier. Terrified of taking chances, she learns that her best friend Sydney is a part of a worldwide viral game called \u201cNerve.\u201d You\u2019re called upon to become a watcher, where you get to witness stunts and dares that become increasingly dangerous, or you can be a player. The player has to dive in to any dare that the public hands them. If they win, they get money wired in to their savings, if they bail out, they lose and their money disappears.<\/p>\n

When Vee signs up to become a player, she realizes this somewhat mischevious game of chicken gradually isn\u2019t so much f anymore, as one moment she\u2019s finding a stranger to kiss for five seconds, and the next she\u2019s straddling a ladder between two high rises. \u201cNerve\u201d uses its stunts as great plot devices, moving the story along and testing the wills and personality of our characters. When Vee meets a mysterious guy named Ian, as played by Dave Franco, things get increasingly complicated when the public demands they begin sharing dares. As I said, \u201cNerve\u201d doesn\u2019t have a new statement about the internet.<\/p>\n

We know anyone will do anything for money. We know with enough fans anyone will put themselves in danger. What works is the execution with some great moments of nail biting tension, and sharp editing. I also enjoyed the performances all around, especially by Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, and Emilh Meade. \u201cNerve\u201d is an above average, often exciting tech thriller, and one I wish more people sought out, if only for the ladder scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s surprising how good \u201cNerve\u201d is because it\u2019s main centerpiece involves risky stunts that I worried would become the crutch for the film\u2019s narrative. Instead it becomes a crucial element in helping to explore the characters that we\u2019re introduced to during the course of the film. Feeling like a technological twist on David Fincher\u2019s \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[58,302,703,1087],"class_list":["post-27732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-packed-april","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-drama","tag-mystery","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27734,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732\/revisions\/27734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}