A blue-print for the post-Obama era:

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2013)

Though some viewers may think that THE PURGE is racist just because 12 cackling and chortling white "purgers" are trying to legally "execute" (their word) the only black male among the 30 folks in the cast of this flick, most likely the talent agents for THE PURGE were unable to find anyone other than Edwin Hodge suited to convincingly play a homeless war veteran. Where the filmmakers perhaps take a wrong turn is in suggesting that hordes of middle class white people would WANT to get slaughtered by a 12-1 ratio through attacking able-bodied war vets, just for the sake of conducting a little Tea Party-style ethnic cleansing (as it's one thing to purge the eligible voter roles of such military heroes as the states of Florida and Pennsylvania did during the last election, and quite another to risk life and limb with no government cop enforcers to back one up). If the rules for THE PURGE actually WERE in effect as depicted in the movie, at least half of middle class whites would make themselves instant widowers along the lines of all those Peterson guys, and the other half of white adults would be killed off by their daughter's boyfriends (as ALMOST happens at the beginning of THE PURGE). The streets would be EMPTY; no one would be running for their lives; ALL the killing would be taking place among the family units (and don't think certain "god-fearing" people would be exempt; the Lifetime Channel runs "based on actual events" movies about pastor's wives killing their husbands every other week, and THE PURGE rules are not even in effect yet!).