What A Lame Film.

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2015)

I found this film to be generic and mediocre and I did not like it and I did not like the characters either they were a bunch of upper class selfish rich people. Most of the characters were A**holes and only cared about themselves. Where do I begin with this film well first let's start with the idea,the idea to the film is stupid and implausible and it would never happen in real life. And yes I know this is a futuristic film but even for a futuristic film it's far fetched and ridiculous. The idea to the film is one night a year all crime is legal and the government has allowed this to happen because they think it will reduce crime,there are so many things wrong with this idea I don't know where to start I guess I will start with the psycho bad guys. Now what exactly is stopping these guys from killing again? How would the government know if they killed on a day that was not purge night?. In reality the government would have No way of knowing if these people would not kill on other days that are not purge day and that's the major flaw with the story. The government is just (hopping) they will not kill for a long time until it reaches purge night. That's right they are (hopping) but they have no way of knowing if these people would go around killing on other days.these people are crazy and purge night will not stop them from killing again. Frankly I think the government are Morons.
Now getting on to the next problem the boyfriend character frankly I thought this guy was a total Idiot with a capital I. This guy has had problems with his girlfriend's dad they don't get along and his way of solving this problem is to go into their house on purge night with a gun and try to kill him???. Yeah that's Such a clever idea moron because your girlfriend is really going to want to be with you After you killed her father. The stupidity of that decision is mind boggling to me because all this Moron will end up doing is making his girlfriend scared of him which will then cause her to Not want to be with Him. This film is filed with dumb decision after dumb decision and it killed my brains. I found the film to be a generic home invasion story that I have seen dozens of times before,the only thing this film had going for it was Lena Heady I like her but even her good performance could not save this film from being a mess.
Eathan Hawke plays the father of the family and I have to say I thought his character was a jerk he was unsympathetic and only seemed to care about himself much like his character in (Sinister) what a funny coincidence. This movie seemed to be filled with jerk characters and characters that had no personality like the daughter character,you know nothing about her to even care about her and its the same with the wife character and the husband,the only character in the family I thought was decent was the son and that's only because he tried to help this guy who was in trouble on purge night and that gesture made the kid somewhat likable, it's a shame the rest of his family were not considerate and nice like he was. But whatever that's just a nitpick I know shame on me for wanting likable characters in a home invasion film so I care about what happens to them. The bad guys were laughable and Lame,they were not scary and not interesting they were just a bunch of stupid teenagers with dumb smiley face masks. Yeah because smiley face masks are REALLY going to scare me.I'm being sarcastic. If I want to see a film that's scary and has a creepy mask I will watch Halloween it's also a better movie than this. I know I should not get off topic but when a film is as bad as this film it makes me want to talk about a better movie.
The son helps this guy who's running away from the bad guys and he lets him into their house to hide him and then somehow the Freaks in the smiley clown masks find the guy and know he's in that house,I have no idea how they know but that's just another nitpick. The main bad guy played by (Rhys Wakefield) is so lame he does not even have a name they just call him polite leader and I'm guessing that's because he always smiles. They threaten to kill Ethan Hawkes family unless they give up the boy inside the house,they give him one hour to make a decision and at first the family hide him but then predictably the family cracks under pressure and they turn on the boy, tie him up,and try to force him outside. The family is constantly changing their minds on whether to give the boy to the bad guys and frankly it just got annoying and boring.
I also can not stress how laughably Crazy the bad guys were they were so over the top I found them to be a joke and they started to annoy me after a while, some of them even started dancing around the garden and playing on the swings like idiots. The film also has a really stupid twist at the end that made no sense and the ending felt unsatisfying and Weak. This Film was mediocre at best and Crap at worst not Terrible just Crap I'm sorry this was not a good film I should also mention this film tried to be scary but failed miserably it was not scary at all it was just crazy and weird.To sum things up this was a Lame Film and I would not recommend it.