The Purge Review.

Rating: 4/10 (25 October 2019)

I watched this movie today (October 25th 2019) after recording it to my DVR and forgetting about it for about 10 days. I decided to watch it while waiting for the installer to come over and install a new cable box. I watched this, not planning to review it for IMDB or my YouTube channel. I am a big horror fan, and this movie, while it is a good home invasion movie, feels like it wasted big potential. For example, the premise of the movie is that in this alternate America, there is one night a year where all crime is legal. But they don't explore that idea whatsoever. The most exploration we get is a documentary or something on a TV where someone says that The Purge is for getting out anger and frustration, but that itself makes no sense, if The Purge is for getting anger and frustration out, then why not just make murder legal for one night? Taking a ton of money from a store isn't getting anger and frustration out. Neither is stealing a flatscreen TV. Or jaywalking. So right away the plot makes no sense. And that's just the first 5 minutes. I'm not going to get into specifics but the entire movie just feels pointless. One example: the entire movie a group of masked men try to break into this family's house to kill a man they are sheltering. Why? Surely there are more people to go after. Then the neighbors. Why at the end did the neighbors decide to try and kill everybody? And why when the mother said that they aren't gonna kill each other and makes dinner, why didn't they just KILL HER AND THE KIDS?! You know what? I've just convinced myself to lower the rating from thinking about that.