Nerve
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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.
What critics thought
Nerve lands as a mixed-but-watchable summer thriller — critics found it fast-moving and visually energetic, with Emma Roberts and Dave Franco carrying genuine charm, but divided sharply over whether its social-media satire had real teeth or dissolved into a preachy, muddled finale. Audiences responded more warmly than critics, suggesting the film plays better as a fun ride than as the sharp commentary it occasionally promises to be.
“Though the ending surrenders to a tsk-tsk-ing morality play that turns on the mob the game (and the film) has so smartly orchestrated, Nerve is the rare virtual thriller that understands how social media actually works and the addictive little subcultures that can spin out of it.”
Scott Tobias·Uproxx
“It is a lot of fun, and not even in a turn-your-brain off kind of way. The film actually has some smart things to say about teenagers, their phones and what people will do to get internet famous and it is all delivered in a colorful little package.”
David Palmer·The Reel Deal
Genres
Mystery, Adventure, Crime
Cast & Crew
Henry JoostDirector
Ariel SchulmanDirector
Emma RobertsVee Delmonico
Dave FrancoIan
Emily MeadeSydney Sloane
Miles HeizerTommy Mancuso
Juliette LewisNancy Delmonico
Kimiko GlennLiv Kurosawa
mgkTy
Marc John JefferiesWes
Samira WileyAzhar
Brian MarcJ.P.
Deema AitkenRobbie
Rob SimonsenComposer
Jessica SharzerWriter
Michael SimmondsCinematographyNerve
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.
What critics thought
Nerve lands as a mixed-but-watchable summer thriller — critics found it fast-moving and visually energetic, with Emma Roberts and Dave Franco carrying genuine charm, but divided sharply over whether its social-media satire had real teeth or dissolved into a preachy, muddled finale. Audiences responded more warmly than critics, suggesting the film plays better as a fun ride than as the sharp commentary it occasionally promises to be.
“Though the ending surrenders to a tsk-tsk-ing morality play that turns on the mob the game (and the film) has so smartly orchestrated, Nerve is the rare virtual thriller that understands how social media actually works and the addictive little subcultures that can spin out of it.”
Scott Tobias·Uproxx
“It is a lot of fun, and not even in a turn-your-brain off kind of way. The film actually has some smart things to say about teenagers, their phones and what people will do to get internet famous and it is all delivered in a colorful little package.”
David Palmer·The Reel Deal
Genres
Mystery, Adventure, Crime
Cast & Crew
Henry JoostDirectorAriel SchulmanDirectorEmma RobertsVee DelmonicoDave FrancoIanEmily MeadeSydney SloaneMiles HeizerTommy MancusoJuliette LewisNancy DelmonicoKimiko GlennLiv KurosawamgkTyMarc John JefferiesWesSamira WileyAzharBrian MarcJ.P.Deema AitkenRobbieRob SimonsenComposerJessica SharzerWriterMichael SimmondsCinematographyRent & Buy