Almost Buddhist - 戲‧論

★☆☆☆☆ ‘Truth Or Dare’ is preposterous! I mean who else knows if you’re telling the truth but you if it’s a secret you keep to yourself, and so what if you don’t do what they dare you to. All right then, to make it not so stupid, here comes the Demon or the Death if you will! And when you wonder, what if they keep choosing ‘Truth’ over ‘Dare’, then they don’t have to do dangerous stunts and get killed, there goes a new rule: there must be a ‘Dare’ after two times of ‘Truth’! Well, the more rules it sets up to execute those kids one by one to try to outsmart and thrill us, the stupider it seems. At times I wonder if I’m watching ‘Final Destination’ instead, which is much better than this in fact, because at least it doesn’t pretend to be as smart. Truth or dare is a stupid game already, and so is the film itself. I dare you to go catch it even if you’re a die hard fan of horror films. Haha!

★☆☆☆☆ I’ve been a fan of Tomb Raider games since I don’t know, probably ‘ TR4: The Last Revelation ’ back in 1999. Whoa, that was almost 20 years ago! It was such a long challenging game indeed that truly exhausted but also amazed me so much! Even the latest reboot of the franchise can no longer give me the thrills that I used to have while playing TR 4, which is the best of the best, hands down! Just because TR games are exhilarating to play doesn’t mean TR films are nice to catch. Like the ‘ Assassin’s Creed ’ film from two years ago that came with a very pleasing trailer but the film itself simply sucks. ‘Tomb Raider’, too, has a very exciting trailer but the film is not at all exciting like expected. The action scenes are casual and dumb. Lara’s change is sudden and awkward. The plot is by no means juicy! ‘ Tomb Raider ’ and ‘ Rise of the Tomb Raider ’ are definitely worth your while, but this film, to be honest, is too carefree to be watchable! ‘ Shadow of the Tomb Ra