Truth Or Dare Review: 2 Ups & 8 Downs

3. The Script Explains Too Much

If Happy Death Day got one major thing right, it was refusing to explain how the protagonist got caught in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop, because the answers to these questions are rarely satisfying, and so often take the focus away from the fun of the actual premise itself.

Truth or Dare sadly doesn't follow that lead, and in its third act in particular decides to vomit exposition at the viewer as it explains in no uncertain terms why this game is happening and who is behind it.

There are frantic searches on laptops, shady meetings in the middle of nowhere, and countless other supernatural horror cliches which all eat up precious screen time that could've been spent torturing idiotic teenagers for our entertainment.

By explaining less and just focusing on exploiting the central conceit - which, honestly, isn't such a bad premise - the film could've been so, so much better.