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Truth or Dare (also known as Blumhouse's Truth or Dare) is a 2018 American supernatural horror film directed by Jeff Wadlow and written by Michael Reisz, Jillian Jacobs, Chris Roach, and Wadlow. The film stars Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto, and Landon Liboiron.

Plot
Olivia, Lucas, and a group of their college friends travel to Mexico for one last getaway before graduation. While there, a stranger convinces one of the students to play a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare with the others. Once the game starts, it awakens something evil -- a demon that forces the friends to share dark secrets and confront their deepest fears. The rules are simple but wicked -- tell the truth or die, do the dare or die, and if you stop playing, you die.

Why It Sucks
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 * 1) The criticized ending could have been made stronger had the choice come down to either Markie or the rest of the world somewhat like the actual ending, then for Olivia to choose Markie. Not only would it have been consistent with what she had said at the start about choosing the world over letting millions of people die, but it also would have been an opportunity to realize what a terrible friend Markie was and do something that would cut her out of her life. It would be a terrible thing, despite the potential audience Catharsis Factor, that would leave the film on an appropriately chilling note. She had to kill her former best friend to save the world and despite her terribleness, Markie was still an innocent party in this situation and wouldn't have deserved to outright die. It could have even made for post-movie movie discussion, rather than the cliched and aggravating ending that did happen.
 * 1) Lucas and the girls have Carter at the mission, ready to do the ritual to trap Calux. During it, however, Calux pops in and forces Lucas to play. Lucas is free to pick truth, which would allow them to finish things up...and the idiot picks dare, setting things up so that the Truth or Dare game spreads throughout the world. Slick thinking there, dude.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Decent musical score by Matthew Margeson.

Reception
Truth or Dare received mostly negative reviews from critics and audiences, who said it was "neither inventive nor scary enough to set itself apart from the decades of dreary slashers that came before it". On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 16% based on 154 reviews and an average rating of 3.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Truth or Dare's slick presentation isn't enough to make this mediocre horror outing much more frightening than an average round of the real-life game.". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 35 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews.". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale.

Trailer
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Reaction To the Trailer
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Reviews
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Comments
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