Embarrassingly bad...

Rating: 1/10 (5 June 2013)

Watched this based on the fact it had an interesting, original idea and good ad campaign...
The reality is that 'The Purge' is one of the worst movies I have ever seen - an original idea is ruined by huge plot holes, annoying, clichéd and unbelievable characters, bad acting and scripting, and an absurdity that goes beyond 'Sci-Fi' or suspending your disbelief...
Rather than being scary, tense or exciting it was just incredibly irritating - watching characters doing the most stupid things throughout that made you repeatedly ask the question "WTF did they do THAT for?"... The woman sat next to me in the cinema was chuckling to herself throughout and at the end climax everyone in the cinema was laughing at how ridiculous and absurd it had all become - was it actually meant as a thriller or a comedy? It started off promisingly and went downhill very quickly indeed...
As soon as you pick through the plot holes and how dumb the purge killers are for cutting off the power to the Sandin's house when they have just asked them to hand over the homeless guy they are harbouring inside you can no longer take any of it seriously at all... Maybe it's because had they NOT cut the power and the lights in the house there would be no movie left and this ordeal would have ended even more prematurely than the 85 mins I had to suffer... The actions of those involved make no sense and the whole feeling of the movie is that as long as you have money then screw everybody else in society...