This movie is for morons

Rating: 2/10 (24 March 2014)

Here is why this movie is for morons:
1.) The premise is moronic: OK, OK, I get the "social commentary" aspect of the film's premise. But only morons believe that all the people who disagree with them politically are conspiring to exterminate the poor and minorities to the point where this premise makes any sense. Demonizing your adversaries is easy; understanding reality takes mental effort—effort that the makers of the film and those who like it are not equipped to expend even if they wanted to.
2.) The story is moronic: I really don't know where to start on this topic. I suppose the worst is that none of the characters is at all realistic enough to garner the least bit of sympathy. Each one is either too stupid, naïve, or too selfish to live, especially through any situation where murder becomes legal for 12 hours! If you were able to identify with one of these characters—my sympathies to you, for you will live a short, brutal existence. One thing that is glaringly stupid is that, given the scenario of Purge Night, all home security systems would have had to be offensive as well as defensive. Walling yourself in would never be sufficient in a lawless situation. There would have to be exterior gun turrets to protect the home from enterprising intruders like those who show up in this story. And, while were dealing with inconsistencies, why could the son communicate verbally with his mother through his robot at the beginning of the film but suddenly have no such capability later on? Perhaps the most moronic touch of all (and this is when I turned it off!) is when the head villain says, " I want every barricade torn down! Every door, every window!" What an idiot! Why would you waste so much time and effort on tearing down every barrier when all you need is one access point? Wouldn't removing all the barriers provide more ways for those inside to escape? If you create one entrance, everyone inside would be trapped and much easier to deal with!
3.) The characters are all morons: OK, lets start with the family. The dad is a deluded materialist who only looks out for his own and thinks that everything that is kept at a distance is not his concern. The wife is basically the same, except she is dumber and understands less of reality, if that's really possible. The teen daughter only understands her own desires and is fixed only sex and music. She has no respect for anyone who is not sexually attractive to her. She blames her father when her boyfriend tries to murder him and he winds up getting killed when her father defends himself, even though her boyfriend blatantly lied to her about his intentions toward her father. After her boyfriend dies, she wanders off into the house in an emotional daze, even though there is a desperate outsider roaming around whom she has every reason to believe might have violent intentions (especially since—let's remember—murder is legal!). The son is an technogeek, but no less a moron when it comes to having any grasp on reality. He disarms the entire security system and opens all the barriers just to let one person in. We must assume that this is not his first Purge, and yet he (and the rest of his family for that matter) does not understand the violence that is going on outside and that any plea could be a ruse to get access to killing him and his affluent family. Then there are the "bad people" (sigh!). Why wear masks when everything is legal? Isn't that the point? Then they traipse around outside like they have nothing to fear from an entire world armed to the teeth with murderous intent! Girls in nightgowns, singing and dancing around in the yard when their own leader is capable of offing one of his friends without notice and with minimal provocation! Then there's the homeless man whom they let in; he struggles frantically to survive and then just suddenly resigns and tells the father to do go ahead and put him outside to protect his family! Oh, yeah! That makes sense!
None of these people would have the slightest chance of surviving any real emergency.
And neither would the creators of this film!
But one thing this film taught me that I never realized before; there are people who need to be purged—the makers of this film!