Future equals violence, this movie equals ridiculous.

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2013)

We are in the future, the year is 2022. For 12 hours once a year, robberies, murders and all the illegalities are allowed and the police cannot intervenes until after this period has elapsed in which everybody can do what they want.
James is a successful businessman who deals with selling alarm systems that allow people to stay safe and keep away from everything happening outside in the night, the so-called "Annual Purge". After the ad is airing on TV James along with his wife and their two children blocks themselves with the hope that they will survive the chaos. But things get complicated when in the house is the girl's boyfriend and his son after seeing that someone is on the street outside and needs help, let him enter the house. Now they are visited by some strangers who want that man to be able to lead the final ritual and threatening that if they don't give him willingly then they come in to get him.
The idea is good but spoil with this preposterous script. It was also funny when Zoey's boyfriend told her that will go to her father to talk about their relationship as man to man then pulls out a gun and shoot him. I mean this is for him to talk like man to man or in his thought said, "hey tonight everything is allowed so I better get rid of him so I can be with his daughter because nobody will do anything". And the reason that James does not agree with their relationship, the big age difference between them? But that difference? Both are teens about the same age. Then those neighbors after have gotten rid of those masked freaks wants to kill them in their place? Maybe for the same reason: tonight everybody commit crimes and get away unpunished?
A horrible way to look in the future, so if this will be in a few years, then what should we expect in the future far more? Oh but wait, it will be a sequel maybe that will respond to this ... killer movie.