Truth Or Dare Review: 2 Ups & 8 Downs

By Jack Pooley / April 13, 2018

7. The Characters Are Totally Unlikeable

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If Truth or Dare's tone had veered a little closer to that of the Final Destination franchise, then perhaps there wouldn't feel like such a dissonance between the film asking the audience to root for these teens and how totally unlikeable they are.

With perhaps one major exception - that's Brad (Hayden Szeto), a nice young man who is struggling to come out to his dad - most of the focal teen characters are vapid, self-absorbed and simply irritating.

Setting them up to die horrifically sounds fun for a schlocky trash-fest such as this, but the film quite earnestly expects audiences to want them to survive, and it just doesn't work, at all.