Insult to intelligence

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2013)

This was an interesting concept and I enjoy films that portray how real people would react in unreal situations. However, I find it difficult to be entertained when my intelligence is being insulted at every turn. How difficult could it be to write in some plausible explanations for the obvious problems this film rubs in our faces? Consider the absurdity of the home security system which is supposedly designed to keep the wealthy safe from the mayhem outside. One clipped wire from an easily accessed box outside and the home owner is left with no power. These families go through the purge every year and nobody considered a safeguard to the main power or a backup generator? How about the steel reinforcements for the doors and windows? The only tools necessary to breach this state- of-the-art technology, is a 20 year old dodge truck and a chain? Who is this security system designed to keep out? The family has no contingency plans for a break-in? No safe room? The father who is an expert on home security, haphazardly leaves the pass code for entry unguarded so that his 12 year old can open it on the most dangerous night of the year? This family must endure this madness year after year, but as they are eating dinner, they active the security as an afterthought within two minutes of the start of the purge? The kids pick some great hiding places don't they? The closet and under the bed...yea, the bad guy would never check there.