Truth or Dare has one good thing going for it—a disturbingly subtle digital effect that hoists the corners of certain characters’ lips into a leering, evil smirk. It’s memorably creepy. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie can be forgotten in advance.
Stop me if you’ve heard something like this before. A group of photogenic youths—SoCal college students in this case—clamber into a van and take off for Mexico, where they’ve decided to spend spring break. Soon we see them knocking back shots and disporting themselves on festive party patios. In a tourist bar they encounter a broody American guy who suggests that they stop having all this fun and instead decamp for an abandoned mission on a gloomy hilltop. Naturally, all of the youths agree that this is a fine idea. When they arrive, broody has another suggestion—let’s all play Truth or Dare. Another excellent notion, the kids decide. After a few embarrassing revelations, broody guy is compelled to tell his own truth—that he is actually offloading an evil game of death on this group in order to save his own life by escaping it. The kids—not complete fools, apparently—fire up their van and head for the border, writes Kurt Loder in his latest review for Reason.
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