Wasted Opportunity

Rating: 5/10 (21 April 2020)

Firstly, I enjoyed the film, however it could have been so much better; hence the average score.
I love the idea of the film, however it was slow to start and followed only one purge. There was the opportunity to follow multiple purge's at the same time to keep us on the edge of our seats.
There were a few frustrations throughout for me:

The children needed to be told what the purge is...although they are teens and clearly lived through this before.
The daughter's boyfriend attempts to murder the father, but ends up getting killed...no one seemed overly shocked by this.
The blood looks like some pre-schoolers were tasked with designing fake blood. I don't understand this - has the director never cut themselves or seen blood? Very unrealistic.
Once the purgers gain access to the house, they are able to find the son hiding in the basement of a huge house within seconds, when the whole family were unable to find the man they tried to protect in their own home for most of the movie!
One of the characters was shot whilst they were standing directly over one of the children, unyet the child managed to get up with no blood on them at all!
Why weren't the purgers better protected? They could clearly afford body armour and guns, but most chose a knife and a toga!

As I said earlier, despite these annoyances I enjoyed the film and would watch it again, however these lowered my enjoyment and I think there is scope to make a much better movie without changing too much.