An awful waste of potential

Rating: 2/10 (29 August 2015)

I am not a big fan if horror films at all but I gave the purge a chance to show me what it had. And this film is just your awful dull cliché horror film. The premise is that once every year murder is made legal for 12 hours so people can use their rage, this is called the purge. After a boy tries to help somebody it brings a group of murderers to there front door. Now I think Ethan hawke is a decent actor and I think he did a decent job in this film with what he was given. His character does have some development and you end up kind of liking him but he is just a pretty boring character. Lena heady is in this film and she does a good job as well with her character being more sympathetic and easier to like but also tough as well. But the kids and the villains in the film are just ridiculous. There characters are hugely unlikeable and have nothing good about them in any way. The premise of this film is really unique but the film absolutely fails to deliver on it. It doesn't matter if murder is legal for this film to work it is just your simple home invasion horror film that you will not care about. The script has nothing to it with no interesting dialogue and really all the characters aren't written very well. The style is poor as well, all the jump scares are predictable and lazy and the action that there is just feels like poor horror action. Overall I was really disappointed with this film and I hope the purge anarchy is allot better.