The Dare Project (2018) Poster

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2/10
Bitter disappointment
laduqesa20 August 2021
I hadn't seen the first film for many years so I was happy to watch it again in anticipation of the sequel. Even though I knew what would happen, the tension was still there in this well-crafted short.

There's always a regret for both gays and straights about the "one who got away" and I know from my own experience that it comes up in thought at the most unexpected moments. I was really looking forward to the second film to see how the relationship would develop.

As soon as it started, I had a sinking feeling. There were just too many people around, too many interruptions. The frisson of the first film was not replicated by the second. The dialogue seemed stilted and stagey, I didn't believe in the situation and especially not in the hunk who jumped into the pool at the end. I'm sorry to say that the edgy rapport the actors seemed to have in their teens was not carried on into their thirties, especially visible at their farewell.

We can never go back in real life, the moving finger writes, and, having writ, moves on; nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line. I wish the writer and director had thought of those lines before this sorry revisiting of what was a polished gem.
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not very inspired option
Kirpianuscus25 September 2021
Maybe the problem of this second part of project is the original Dare. It seems a perfect circle who has need nothing. But , sure, the pressure of fans can be a motif to make a second part. Who can work decently only if it is an independent one. The past can not be changed and the impression of return to same pieces, again, the party who is the wrong frame for story, the man in pool , the seducer, the kiss who becomes a sort of duty for end the story, the return to pool are not, for me, inspired pieces. Sure, if you see only the second part, the things are not so bad. But both represents a very unfair comparation . So, good occasion for see, again, the original Dare and, unfortunatelly, not more than that.
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1/10
A waste of time, money, and talent
saunjal-2059518 August 2021
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The sequel, which is tagged onto the original Dare Project video, is so poorly conceived that it left me feeling cheated and angry. We waited 15 years to see the lives/stories of the main characters advance about 15 minutes. Unlike the original video, the sequel has no compelling storyline and, instead of focusing on the characters we've waited 15 years to see again, new characters are introduced who only serve as annoying distractions. If the writers had nothing more to say about the original characters, why didn't they simply scrap the sequel? So, what we conclude with is a kiss and the guys promising to get in touch soon. Okay, so are we going to wait 15 more years for another 15 minutes of meandering talk? Or is this sequel simply a failure - the very disappointing conclusion of a project that originally held such promise?
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3/10
What was the point?
junkmail-4856622 February 2022
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If Salky had a purpose for making the second part of "Dare," it got lost somewhere. Ben and Johnny should have either rekindled their relationship where it left off in the first part, or it should have ended. The way the second part played out, everything remained as unsettled as it did when they were in high school, and the feature film version left everything between Ben and Johnny equally as unsettled. If a filmmaker needs to tell a story, he shouldn't let every conclusion leaving the viewers hanging, hoping for a finite resolution, which obviously Salky cannot bring himself to create.
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3/10
Definitly needs to be rewritten
marcosportes12 June 2020
No this movie does not deserve a 7 point three. it was a 34 minute movie and the entire half of it was the old "dare" i was 15 minutes into it and for some reason the director decided to put the entire old movie into this one. and so the the movie i guess actually starts and in jumps right into the guys seeing each other again. the dialogue between them felt so weird and it was like they never stopped seeing each other.there was no plot just two guys who somehow recognized eac other from high school talking for hours and then when you think something its going to happen between nothing happens. this movie honestly ruined the first one for me. i wished i never saw it and just sticked to the first one which was a masterpiece.
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