Could have been Great but Wasn't

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2013)

Great concept, not so great film. The film is set in the future and during this time the new US government has decided to have an annual purge to do away with the violence that happens on an every day basis by allowing people to use the purge as an outlet. The purge is a 12 hour time span from 7p-7a in which absolutely everything becomes legal including murder...there are no police, no hospitals, no anything for 12 straight hours. The government believes that by allowing people those 12 free hours to do as they please violence will decrease...interesting concept as it has never been done before, but that's as far as the good goes. I think the movie was just poorly scripted, they took too long to get to point (and this isn't even a long movie) and focused too much on small irrelevant stuff beforehand. This could have been a very good film had they found a better story line or maybe gone a bit deeper into the story line.