I Don't Know What's Wrong With This Movie

Rating: 3/10 (6 July 2013)

Producer of 'Paranormal Activity' movies, 'Insidious', 'Sinister', and 'Dark Skies', Jason Blum (my favorite producer) decides to team up with writer and director James DeMonaco to produce 'The Purge'. The movie stars Ethan Hawke (main character in Jason Blum's biggest movie, 'Sinister'), as the main character, James Sandin, Lena Headey, who plays his wife, Mary Sandin. I thought that the Casting Department in this movie did a good job, because these actors worked well. The movie has a great idea and good characters, but does this movie execute itself well? I thought so.
'The Purge' jumps into the story very fast. I don't think it's very long before the purge in the movie starts. That short time slot is the time used to introduce the characters. So, we don't really know the characters very well. I understood that, though, because we don't need a boring beginning to introduce the characters, when we just want all of the action to start. You think it's cool when it shows all of this futuristic technology, but sadly that's the top of the hill of the very beginning of the purge section of the movie. There were a few things that happened, but they were predictable to me. That part was very different than I expected it to be. You saw in the trailer that one of the kids let this random guy who's calling for help into the house. That was part of this section of the movie: the beginning of the purge part. It was a little entertaining of the family having to do a few things because of him, but it could have been better. So, the movie hasn't gone very well so far. It would have to redeem itself with very cool action later. It did that very thing.
After the boring part ended, the thriller part of the movie started. There were people invading the house and trying to kill the family. This was the part of the movie that they executed well. There were many action and thriller sequences that were very cool, intense, and enjoyable. Yes, some of them were very predictable, but some of them weren't. The weird thing is, this part of the movie wasn't very long. Well, the whole movie wasn't very long. It was only about eighty minutes long. I wondered if the movie were longer if it would be worse or better. I thought that they made it that short so that it wouldn't be boring and it wouldn't have that much time to make itself bad. Anyway, when it got closer to the end of the movie, some very unpredictable things happened. Some were good, and some were bad. Well, I actually thought near the end only one or two of those things were bad.
So, the movie, as a whole, was good. It was enjoyable, thrilling, and a little intense. My 7/10 means that this movie is good and I liked it, but this movie could have gone in a different direction and it would have been better. The idea of 'The Purge' is very good. I thought if it didn't focus on just one family or not gone in the direction of a slasher movie, it could have been really good. It also could have been done a little better, too.