The Stupid Are Like Cockroaches...

Rating: 1/10 (17 October 2013)

... what?
Okay, so the premise of the movie is that on March 21st of every year, for exactly 12 hours, the USA becomes a slaughterhouse for the poor- er, I mean, all crime is legal. Including murder.
Because murder is definitely the worst crime imaginable, right? No, seriously. Worst crime ever. It's even singled out in the movie's Purge warning.
So the movie is about this troubled night, in the year 2022, and is focused on this one family's experience...
... which would have never happened at all in the first place if the family wasn't so frikkin' *moronic*.
*For Instance* If this Purge is a major changing point in the history of your country, why aren't you educating your children on the dangers of not minding your own frikkin' business? For a teenage male with as many smarts as seemed to be portrayed, the 'son' of the family is a gorram nut-case, with absolutely *zero* street smarts.
While the movie never explains how many years this Purge tradition has been going on, I'm sure it can't be too long. No more than eight years or so. This would mean that at least one of the idiotic children in this movie would remember things about the world from before the Purge was initiated... so why not pass this information on to your frikkin' sibling?
And what responsible parent would let their child know/have the lock-down codes for your house, especially on the *deadliest* night of the year? Oh yeah, and mother? This strange man, covered in blood, whose presence inside your house has now put your family at risk, and who had, no more than ten (10) minutes prior, thrown *your* daughter into a wall and knocked her out... you don't want to throw him outside, as was asked of you, to end the torment coming down upon you? Your own daughter has *a bleeding head wound* and has been knocked unconscious, and you wish to save her attacker's life?
I don't have kids, and I find this brand of idiocy absolutely appalling.
Then there's the "If you throw him out there, you'll be no better than them," thing that was attempted to be thrown into the movie. Because letting the enemy invade your house to kill you *and* the man your stupid son helped is totally better than just throwing the man out of your house, ending the nightmare for your family, changing your frikkin' lock-down codes, and beating some sense into your moronic kid, right?
Because child abuse is totally allowed during this 12 hours too. But it's obviously not nearly as horrible a crime as murder.
One star, only because I can't rate in halves. I want that hour and a half of my life back, please.