The Purge

Rating: 7/10 (21 June 2013)

I actually liked The Purge. So go ahead, dislike my review and trash all my other reviews and make a YouTube video call me a f*g and say you're going to kill me. Or save it for the Purge.
Does this describe something you would do? Then The Purge is making a social comment about you, and I couldn't agree with it any more. They are trying to say that the world we live in now is worse than a future we live in during which it is legal to kill rape and molest people. This was done in many ways including rubbing it in our faces by making things the doll-faced creeps do humorous, such as when the girl jumped up in the air and got shot and went flying. Half the people in my theater were dying laughing at this. I think the makers of the movie threw this in there to show that our culture has become so adjusted to violence that we laugh at it. Go ahead, think I'm crazy, but I think there were a lot of things like this that were added that made the film a unique experience never before seen. (I never like to give away theme in my reviews, as I've said before, so sorry if this seems underdeveloped. Just go see the movie and see for yourself.) The place that bothered me about the movie is the plot that accompanied the great idea behind the film. The simple home-invasion concept seemed like it didn't suit to the idea properly, and made it seem like the idea of the Purge wasn't even necessary for the plot. Something like the characters are driving home from somewhere, get stuck in traffic during the commencement of the Purge would have been a greater idea. And yes, characters do make very stupid decisions, along with many other horror clichés scattered through out, though there was something that made it almost okay.
The Purge brought about a new style of horror movie that reaches suspense not through characters or situations present, but in human nature. It brings out a fear of people substituting themselves for characters throughout the films. It brings out not terrifying suspense, but more of a type of cutting fear (it is so hard to describe this, just see it for yourself). It is a style of horror I've never seen before.
Overall I really liked The Purge, and don't listen to what other people say. It isn't stupid, they just don't get it. There is so much hidden behind it that many people could not catch it. It is quite the experience that you must witness in a theater to get the whole experience so go out and see it quickly.
GRADE: B+