Passing but not quite satisfactory.

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2013)

After watching this movie I felt compelled to right my first and maybe only review and the way I see it is that there are two ways to go into this movie.
First, as a movie goer that believes the plot is what defines the movie. Well if this is the case, let me say, save the however many dollars you'll have to spend. In a nutshell, the government has found a way to boost the economy while also reducing crime, and this is through the annual 'purge' where all crime is legal for 12 hours. There are several major characters and a lot more minor characters in this movie. Obviously there's the family that consists of the mom, dad, son and daughter, and the minor characters that I want to refer to as the purgers. Many possibly interesting conflicts emerge and a few, if not none at all, get resolved in any meaningful manner. There is little to no character background; the only person there is the slightest background for is the dad, everyone else's background is literally only shown in small 10-20 second clips and cut-scenes through the beginning of the movie, and we know even less about the purgers. If you ever do find yourself getting somewhat into the plot a character does something completely ridiculous and you find yourself loathing the movie again.
If, that's not what you came for, and you've came to just watch the film it'll somewhat be worth the money spent; but only a little. The moment you decide to not care about what happens and what lead to these certain situations you can get pretty interested. As the movie trots along the action builds up, but then just stops... There are several points in the movie where something happens and you just expect the movie to end at a point where it would actually make sense but doesn't, then it continues, you think it's going to end again, it continues, then it ends in the absolutely worse way, at least in my opinion.
Plot - 4; Interest Level - 7; Overall - 5.5 (F grade): Applaud the effort but still a fail. Giving the benefit of the doubt and rounding up, it's a D; below average... it'll get you by but isn't necessarily a good thing.