not very good...

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2013)

in the year 2022, United States has a new law that once a year, in a 12 hour period all crimes will be legalized. This law has saved the dying economy of the country, as it is suggested that all poor and week people will be defenseless during the period for attack. Rich people however are able to lock themselves up in their high security mansions and wait for the killing raping sprees to end. The main characters The Sandins are one of the least believable families you'll ever see. Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey did a great job with what they have, but the daughter and son are just painfully bad to watch. It really shows how weak the writer and director are in the movie when characters need to purposely leave the group and wonder off just so they can reappear later in the movie, it's just like "i don't know what to do with this character so i might as well not include him/her in the scene." Not to mention how ridiculous the movie started, It is already established that The Purge happens every year, and this kid (the most annoying character you'll ever see) disables the family's security to let a complete bloody stranger (which was being hunted by a gang of psychopaths) in their house, and the reason is "why does he deserve it?" I just rolled my eyes when i heard that. I know there won't be a movie if he didn't do that, but there could always be another reason for this to happen. Crazy killers could just randomly pick your house to attack, or even more logical, the Father could have made enemies in his company since he was performing so good at work, that would totally make sense. To further insult the audience, the kid aids the stranger in hiding from his family, and eventually puts his sister in danger. when asked to hide in the basement, he turns on his flash light in the dark constantly moves around, when he is found(thanks, big surprised) i was hoping he gets killed right there. The villains were under developed, i felt they were going for a Manson family type of feeling, but it just falls flat, you didn't give a sht who these guys, when Evan Hawk finally kills a couple of them and reveals to be just some teen aged, yeah big surprise again, these guys try to kill my family, so what if their teenagers. The ending was ridiculous to say the least, and was incredibly awkward. what happen was it turns out the neighbors show up and killed all the teen killers, and the reason being is they wanted to kill the Sandins themselves. OK..i like this twist but what was embarrassingly bad was when 6 adults were being overpowered by one hobo guy with a gun, WTF The movie ending with all of them sitting at the table waiting for the purge to end. god what a piece of sht this movie was.