The Purge

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Han R Apr 24, 2019 While it was more fun than it had any right to be, with its intriguing premise squandered on a pretty generic home invasion thriller, the purge starts off promising before a number of stupid characters' decisions and plotting left me wanting to purge some of the writers. What bothered me most about this movie is how badly I wanted to see what was going on outside this one house and all over America, an idea that the movie's next two sequels used to much greater effect. Aside from that, the children kept getting separated for no reason and acting in the most ridiculous ways, from opening all the gates to let a rando inside, to purposefully leaving their family to go wander aimlessly around the house whilst the aforementioned rando is still loose and there are psychopaths waiting at the doors. The children are not the only ones to succumb to absurd decision-making as the otherwise reasonable head of the household, James, also lets his daughter wander off when she wakes up from her fall and leaves the homeless man tied up instead of arming him to help him protect their house. The other thing that bothered me a ton, was the 4 (yes, 4!) last minute saves when a villainous character would easily have killed our protagonists but a deus ex machined gun goes off from right off screen to kill our villains at the very last second. If this had happened once, the cliche would've merely annoyed me, but this happening over and over, coupled with all the insane decisions and laughable ending, left me disappointed. See more

Leia S Apr 22, 2019 "The Purge" has a very promising premise, but director James DeMonaco took it to all the unimaginative places. The story here was really promising, the universe felt real, the idea is really exciting. The movie is unfortunately taking place in a restricted space and does not take advantage of the world-building. It is not really horrific nor scary enough. This whole premise could move this storyline forward, to whichever direction, but DeMonaco chose the most unimaginative one. "The Purge" is interesting as an idea, but really basic as a horror movie. See more

Hagrid G Apr 6, 2019 It was a good movie but it felt like I lost the story line a bit because of all the different characters in different places.

Theodore W Apr 4, 2019 I can understand how the idea of the purge is so popular. People generally think it's a clever type of catharsis for society. But I'll never be able to get on board with the theory or the movies. It simply just wouldn't work in the real world. There would be far too much backlash from all crime that was committed the night before, especially murder. You can't just forgive and forget all that just because the law tells you so. Victims and victims' families would riot. It would be chaos. I think the whole concept is just a dark fantasy that some people enjoy seeing played out on screen. Unfortunately, for me anyway, that fact is just a sad one. See more

Mar 24, 2019 Most people hate this movie, I actually enjoyed it. It has obvious flaws but it is entertaining. The length of the film happens to be an advantage. When you start to get tired of the predictability, it ends. See more

Abraham S Mar 19, 2019 Great concept some parts are boring but the acting was good.

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