Nice Idea For a Film

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2015)

The writers were on a decent track when they thought this movie up.
Making a movie where there is no laws for a certain amount of time, and everyone can make their selves feel better by ensuing whatever crime they desire for that amount of time.
The down-fall of this movie, is not the actors, but rather the plot.
If they had the family leave their house, for some reason or another, it would've made the movie much more suspenseful and gritty -- But I guess seeing as "The Purge: Anarchy" did this, they waited to make Anarchy to be able to show the outdoors... Well I got news for you; The Purge: Anarchy was WORSE than its prequel (As, in my opinion, most sequels are) But back on track... The Purge was/is nothing more than an action movie with cliché action sequences and a lot less language was used in it than your average action film.
I really wish they would have made it much more gritty, violent and possibly gorier as the name implies.
And I know this is a review for "The Purge" but I'll just throw my 2 cents in real quick (again)... "The Purge: Anarchy"... Hmmm... Writers, next time you feel the need to place Anarchy along-side a word such as "Purge" or any variant or similar word, please show Anarchy -- Because all I saw, was generic cliché action sequences with sh*t I've seen before.
The basic definition of "anarchy" is "chaos" and there wasn't NEARLY enough chaos in "The Purge: Anarchy" for the title to match itself.
So yet again, great key point ("Purging"), completely done wrong.
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I rated this movie at 7, only because Ethan Hawke (and whoever plays his wife -- I can't remember her name) is a good actor and actress and they kept this movie alive long enough for me to scoot passed it.