A great premise, disgustingly flawed...

Rating: 2/10 (25 September 2018)

So, after all this time, I finally saw The Purge. It's a great concept, with terrific production quality. But..... The number of glaring plot holes, unexplained events, and irrational character actions ruins it utterly.
The ones that particularly drove me nuts: why did the lights go out in the house? It's not clearly explained why the boyfriend draws a gun. How did their state-of-the-art security system break down so damned easily?
And worst of all - why the H*LL would the wife let the neighbors go at the end? They should've been slaughtered wholesale... because otherwise they'd be a massive danger during The Purge next year.
IMO - these are completely unacceptable errors in the story - and ones that *could* have been fixed with a few script tweaks.