Truth or Dare

11/3/2014

Or would you rather? After a student is publicly humiliated during a truth or dare party game, the assembled tormentors are surprised to be invited to his country retreat for a party… Yep! We are in familiar territory here, a bunch of annoying teenagers go out in the woods today and head for a big surprise. In fact the story twists quite early on and has great potential, landing the narrative in a sort of torture porn revenger universe, but the makers then rely far too heavy on this aspect and the dialogue is only matched in banality quotient by the plot holes. Even the brutality factor quickly gets boring, it’s like covering for inadequacies elsewhere by thrusting the violence to the front to try and save the movie. However, it’s not a total washout. There’s a trio of jumping-be