Made me wanna purge too

Rating: 2/10 (27 November 2013)

This movie reached a rare level by me as it proved unwatchable - the entire concept couldn't even get off the ground after 38 minutes, by which time I shut it down. It was ultimately a 'who cares?' that envelopes, then smothers this dog of a flick. Everything wound up being telegraphed and the concept, under cover of the founders of the New United States merely stokes fires of hatred, pain, revenge, misogyny, sadism and probably a lot of other under-superlatives to describe the worst kind of drek on screen and within the human heart. The concept itself sounds good on paper - one day a year to unleash the beast, keeping it bottled up in the meantime for the sake of societal peace and security. This movie ain't sci-fi, it ain't psy-thriller - it is merely psychotic, wrong-headed and a true waste on so many levels. Just look at the take for this flick - over half its money on the opening weekend and then - freefall. Read into it what one will, but I say folks wised up to the fact that this wasn't entertaining, it wasn't cathartic and, if anyone else's reaction was like mine, one just felt slimed and manipulated. There is surely a place in movies for manipulation and slime (Aliens anyone?) but I still struggle to get the grime off - after only 38 wasted minutes.