Success? Really?

Rating: 1/10 (28 July 2013)

What movie/box-office-success!? I'm gonna say right now that I'm a movie watcher and a bit of a winter. I may not be Steven King but I have at least an above average understanding on what it takes to make a story work and I think some may understand when I say that I stopped watching at about 55mins in and simply walked away.
Everything is completely unbelievable. I don't wanna write 2 pages on why I think that is - but damn! From the moment that the black guy - no from before the moment that the bum was even on-screen, and that stupid little over-privileged boy decided to give up the safety of his entire family. 5 for 1 is not a good trade in anyway you look at it.
And the stuck-up brat of a daughter who's too hot in her pants to even see straight, doing everything she can to get captured and raped by this 'intruder.'
I don't even like this movie but lets entertain the idea of it. Do they not understand what kind of animals and freaks come out on that night? Do the kill cams not make it clear enough for them every single year? Does the prissy education they receive not teach them why it is important to simply lock the fkn doors and wait out 12 hours in an entire year? heck, they can sleep most of that time off! Was the daughter so insanely hot for Dick that she was willing to get raped? Could they actually be so stupid?
This movie would have made sense telling a story of survivors that are outside the comforts of such a privileged life and security. But for some reason, every person turns on the father who has given them safety and security in more than one way. Every single one of the characters wanted a piece of the Purge action, else they wouldn't have been so stupid as to do everything they did.
After the 'boyfriend' of the daughter was shot and the girl went missing with the intruder in the house, how is it that they spent time looking at the cams, talking and acting like its okay that shes alone in the house with an unknown man on the night of the purge. Why where they not all tearing at the doorknobs to go find her. Instead they sat and had to tell the audience the game plan - show through action Mr. Director, everyone knows a fathers instinct is to go out search and kill to get his daughter back.
I could rage on and on about the stupidity of this movie. The boy betrays his father and families security twice by helping the bad man to get in and then help him hide. Why?
This movie twists too many stupid angles and is only possible if every single character becomes completely stupid and looses all sense of self preservation for no real good reason. I'm not an a-hole and I can't imagine living in a world like that - but I sure understand the darkness of humanity that can be released on a night like that (the cam snippets at the opening credits as some PG examples to how bad it could actually get) horrors so unspeakable it could only be mentioned or hinted at to keep people from puking their guts out at the beast that is humanity without law, order and civility.
Please if you are reading this, skip this over-rated trash. If it even made sense and had some kind of intelligence to it, I'd say give it a go because everyone has their own cup of tea. But this thing (not a movie) is so loosely put together and had to take away so much to make itself work that it's beyond an atrocity that it was able to be called a movie. Its like a couple of High School kids wrote the script. Interesting idea - yeah maybe - stupid characters and an even dumber execution.
I would instead point your attention to an 'ol movie called Panic Room with Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart (2002) at least this movie made sense and it was about them outsmarting the bad guys, not about being as stupid as they can to get themselves killed like in this movie. Kristen IDR what her characters name was, she understood fear and survival and the situation was somewhat less hostile than an entire country during a purge. See that and then look at Purge, You'll know why I'm raging about stupid money milking movies like the Purge. And you'll know why I cry tears of blood when I hear that this movie is somehow popular and desirable to today's audience. They want more mindless action and less innovative and thought provoking media.
When did we stop standing up for ourselves? When did we stop standing up and actually saying 'Booo' and leave the theater. Stand! Demand your money back and go find another movie or something else to do. Don't let the economy or the movie industry or the damned government bully you out of your money. Demand better entertainment! Demand better rights! Demand higher standards!
Please rate this movie 1 star, if you agree. I would greatly appreciate it. And like this so that it gets bumped up and helps other people.