Disappionting, drowsy, ridiculous movie, kind of waste of my time

Rating: 3/10 (17 November 2013)

When I saw the trailer I'd rather expected a horror and scary production, with the weird masks on DVD cover. However, it turns out to be a pretty disappointment and just wasted approximately two hours of my weekend night. First of all, I have to say the concept of this film is fairly good, it sets the background to release the devils inside everybody. When killing, murdering, torturing become legal and you can revenge just as you wish, the situation could be a really really disaster and even massacre occurs. And audience can see from the setting background, a lot of stories can happen on that particular 12 hours.
Despite the intrigue idea of the script, the director obviously ignore that the audience has logical sense! Here are the groofs in this movie: James Sandins (starring Ethan Hawke) is a huge character hole. How could anyone buy a security system from a guy that his own security system could be opened with a single password? How could a "professional" guy give the password of his house's security system to his stupid naive silly son? How could a security system that simply covers the doors/windows with steel be sold nationwide? How could any family that has any sense will leave the monitoring room unwatched during a purge night and finally let the sheer idiot son Charles make his own decision to take in a bloody strange man who was apparently under hunted? What kind of so-called security system has no defense procedures at all? In an "American" like this, where annual cleanse of the poor and lower level is supported, what sort of house will have no basement or escape tunnel or plan B at all, and worst of all, this one of the "haves" family raised a foolish son who lacks of all common senses as well as a delicate daughter who loves a guy wants to talk to her father in a gun?
The daughter triggers every disaster in her house, and she just disappeared immediately after the mess occurred, then jumped out mysteriously, out of nowhere to go back to her mom or dadoh, when I saw this ridiculous lovely daughter, I just want to slash in her face. Then the son Charles' turn: this even more ridiculous boy has the guts to let a complete stranger in his house without talking to his parents and after everything happened, he never apologized or regret what he has brought to his family, he has this creepy toy rolls around his house and that's it oh my god, I just cannot believe how I expected this little scary toy to carry out a certain mission when I first saw its appearance. The third comes to the mom, Lena Headey is beautiful but useless in any single plot. She creams and run out of the monitor room to look for her stupid daughter or son many times and even when she held her husband's body, she calls out her children who might probably hide well to let them circle around her dead husband and let another bunch of people to kill them all. When I watched to this length, I just wondering did the director ever thought that we audience have a brain that can think logically and emotionally?
Last comes to the also useless husband, though Ethan Hawke has some fight scenes against the hunting young crewed, but that's not scary or horrifying at all, they are just silly childish actions, has no atmosphere which it supposed to embrace. Then there comes the other group of people, actually their neighborhoods, who is envy of the husband's making money for selling security system to them and come with barely unarmed except some knifes. When they tried to kill the family members, the most ridiculous scene happened, Lena screams while her neighbors tied them up, she kept shouting and shouting and shouting, thus these supposed-to-seriously-hated-them neighbors just let the time slip away and eventually killed or stopped by the poor black man they tried to take-in this could be one of the most terrible plots I've seen this year.
All characters and plots are easily destroyable, just the same as their so-called security system. My husband watched it with me and he questioned like "if we're permitted in a country or society like this, how would you react in a purge night?" I answered "I will find someplace hide and would not step out during the 12 hours". "That's it! What kind of people would simply stay at their cozy home and close the doors shutdown their windows or activate a stupid security system to let other know: hey, here's a wealthy family waiting for you to unleash your rages!" he added afterwards, "if I have the chance to design a security system to be used in a world like this, I would definitely allow no one to shut an activated system within the next 12 hours, even with password or fingerprints or whatever else".
I just felt that my IQ is badly hurt by the director or whoever writes the script. It's an unsuccessful movie with plots loopholes spreading from beginning to end.