watchable but cliché

Rating: 6/10 (26 June 2013)

its OK, not quite as bad as people say, but watch it as it was intended just a take on an elitist new religion craziness
some parts will make you rage and the sheer cliché shock tactics like some stroppy girl marching about a house undersiege on her own.
the do the right thing undertones and you will only be human for 364 days of the year
the bits that i actually took away and did haunt me for several hours after the film (which leans me towards I must have enjoyed it on some level) was the scary portrayal of elite people justifying their needs to kill homeless and poor people. People treating this as a new religion quite far apart from the 'thou shall not kill' attitude that religion tends to have and replaces it with thou shall not kill, unless it is the designated 12 hour allotment.
essentially it came down to if you could kill once per year legally for a 12 hour period then the poor and homeless get crucified.
essentially the idea is OK, i liked some of the idea but it is riddled with holes and what ifs that if this were a reality would actually happen rather than the singular example of the film.
my biggest bugbear was they waited until the actual start of the purge to lock themselves in their armoured home, Christ i would have had that door down as soon as all family members were accounted for and left them closed way past the hour.
to me it was written by someone who was stoned when they came up with the idea and didn't really think the reality of it through.