Tolerable, Absolutely Tolerable.

Rating: 4/10 (19 June 2013)

"Tolerable" is the best compliment i can give this movie. It did a good job of showing a "Lord of the Flies" style breakdown of morals of a nice and smiley suburban white family. But every move this movie wanted to make was so forshadowed so heavily that nothing was a surprise. Which could be useful in a movie where the entire cast is bland as toast.
The "villains" are about as intimidating as a troupe of toddlers with squirt guns and even the parts that were meant to convey menace or unease (the masks the villains wore, for instance) honestly came across as funny and not scary. There were one or 2 points where the tension was right, but this was few and far between.
My main complaint is that this movie goes NO WHERE. From the time The Purge starts, 30 minutes in, until the closing credits, the stakes are not raised at all. Nothing happens to increase tension or make you wonder "how will they make it". Again this is as much a fault of the heavy handed forshadowing as anything, but I still feel a movie needs to increase the stakes in the last 20 minutes or so to keep it interesting and this movies remains lifeless for the last hour.
As I saw before, this movie was funny, very funny at some points. But this is not a comedy and I laughed at it as much as I did with it. 4/10 because while it had problems, these problems weren't terrible, just gave the movie an over all uniteresting quality.