Just Epic!!

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2013)

I wasn't bought when first seeing this film on the Odeon website. In fact I wasn't at all convinced it was going to be a great film! But I was wrong!
Upon seeing trailers & previews it looked like a great film! The concept of doing what ever the hell you wanted for 12 hours! The whole "All crime is legal!" is what caught my attention & I had to see this!
Well, it was an great film! Loved the concept! Kill people over grudges/disagreements etc! It's something anyone who held so much hate for someone would do to let it out! In other words, 12 hours of stress relief! I Love it!
A Stranger gets let into the house after begging for help! Which would lead the audience to think he was just pretending so he could come in & kill people! The stranger then goes away to hide while the boyfriend of the fathers daughter attempts to kill him! Then the killers outside start swarming the outside of the house, wearing creepy stereo-typical "nice" smiling masks, while holding machetes, guns, knives, bats etc! With the polite/sinister leader giving them an hour to hand the stranger over to them or they'll come in & kill them all! They cut the power! They then wait outside making threats to the camera! Such as pretending to slice their own throats, putting the guns to their heads etc! Not to mention playing around the garden area! Women swinging on the swings! Dancing around etc! Just mental!
The family try to find the stranger, so they could hand him over! But then decide against it & fight back! The heart of the film then starts with the family cautiously walking around the house, armed with guns & torches of men & women, couples & singles (all wearing the same masks) breaking in laughing & destructing the place, looking for them & ready to kill!
I just liked the way the film was panned out! How the killers were just plain neighbours/normal everyday people killing! Like the women were in frilly white dresses holding machetes! How mad is that!? Couples holding hands & having piggy backs while searching for them! Just how twisted it was just made this film so interesting! Not to mention how sick minded they were! Then through the climax of the film, the masked killer get killed by unknown strangers! As well as the father, who sadly gets killed by the polite man by a machete after a great battle scene! The smug polite stranger also gets killed & is supposingly the last! Until the unknown strangers who helped decide to kill the family also as payback for rubbing the money of the home security in their faces! The stranger from the start, (who get let into the house) kills a few of them! Then they wait until morning! When the Purge finishes (after the siren sounds) & the remaining killers leave (after the women gets her head thumped repeatedly on the glass table after one last final attempt to kill the mum! Then the films ends with them standing in the door way waiting for the emergency services to arrive!
Overall It was a very enjoyable film! Really liked it! Kept me on the edge of my seat! Lacked the gore & was abit dark to see! But wasn't a huge disappointment! Was well better then what I thought it would be!
10/10