The Dare Project

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.

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.

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.