A decent home invasion flick with an implausible premise

Rating: 5/10 (1 November 2014)

It's got masked killers wanting to invade a home and it has an interesting backdrop. Set in the near future, A new regime known as the New Founding Fathers of America have allowed one night a year to be a legalized crime spree which includes murder. It's simply referred to as the Purge. In the real world, something like this would get shot down quickly but we are going to have to accept this for the sake of the movie.
The social commentary behind it after all is quite interesting. The main character played by Ethan Hawke is a wealthy man living in a wealthy neighborhood. He supports the Purge and not only that, but makes a profit off the event by selling people home defense systems. Therefore, the rich are more likely to survive the Purge than the middle or lower class.
The plot of this movie is simple. The main character's son allows a stranded homeless man in after a group of masked, college educated killers that have a hatred for the impoverished want to kill him. The killers want the homeless man and give the main character a chance to live by giving him over. There is also a minor subplot of another person that infiltrated the house before lockdown but I don't go into details to avoid spoiling the entire plot.
With only a 3-4 million dollar budget, the movie does so little around this interesting but implausible premise. The best it can do was to tell a home invasion story, similar to The Strangers around this premise.
It's an entertaining film by all means but don't expect anything too special.