The Purge: Anarchy

## Movie Guide

***The Purge: Anarchy*** is an American Horror-Thriller directed and written by James DeMonaco. The film is a sequel to 2013s The Purge
The movie stars Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, and Edwin Hodge.

## Plot

In a dystopian United States run by totalitarian political party New Founding Fathers of America, the annual Purge, a 12-hour event that legalizes all crimes without authorities intervening, is credited as having saved the country's collapsing economy. While everyone across the United States prepares for the carnage, the nation's impoverished population is no longer seen as people, but as living garbage, whom the wealthy denounce as only living to serve their needs. However, before the sixth annual purge begins on March 21, 2023, a successful anti-purge resistance group led by Carmelo Johns and his partner, the Stranger from the first film, hijack government feeds to denounce the New Founding Fathers and their actions.

In Los Angeles, working-class waitress Eva Sanchez returns home to her daughter Cali and terminally ill father Rico, who also despises the New Founding Fathers. Before Rico slips out to a waiting limousine, leaving a note for his family revealing that he has sold himself as a Purge offering in exchange for $100,000 to be paid to Eva and Cali after the Purge.

Married couple Shane and Liz visit a grocery store, only to be ambushed by a masked gang of bikers. As they drive away to avoid them, their car breaks down. It is then revealed that the biker gang had cut their fuel line, and has been pursuing them since they left. Meanwhile, off-duty LAPD sergeant Leo Barnes plots to kill Warren Grass, a man who had inadvertently run down and killed his son while driving drunk not during the Purge, and was acquitted on legal technicalities. Despite pleas from his ex-wife Janice to abandon his plans, Barnes drives out into the streets with an armored car and several weapons, posing as a vigilante.

As Shane and Liz try to find safer hiding places, the sirens blare and the Purge commences. Eva and Cali are attacked by their lustful superintendent Diego, whose relationship with Eva was once rejected in the past, but he is gunned down by a paramilitary platoon, who captures the women to offer them to their leader Big Daddy for his own personal Purge. The Sergeant arrives and rescues them after killing the troops and wounding Big Daddy. They return only to find Shane and Liz hiding in Sergeant's car. The group flees just as Big Daddy fires at them, heavily damaging the car. After Leo's car breaks down, the group flees on foot to reach the home of Eva's co-worker Tanya and borrow her car. They navigate their way through the hostile streets, finding evidence that the Anti-Purge group has been gaining the upper hand against the purgers and the NFFA. After freeing Shane from a trap and taking guns from an abandoned purger's van, the group heads to the subways. However, a pyrotechnic purging gang invades the subways and sets Purge refugees on fire. Liz and Shane fend off the gang, resulting in Shane getting wounded, but the group manages to escape.

The group returns to the streets but as they near Tanya's apartment building, Eva unknowingly signals a traffic camera to identify them to the paramilitary troops who pick up the apartment's location. They reach Tanya's flat but learns there is no car there. Tanya's family takes them in, offering them dinner and medicine. However, Tanya's sister Lorraine proceeds to murder her sister for sleeping with her husband. The group leaves the family to their fate, only to be captured by the masked gang, who take them to a theater where upper-class Purgers bid them for human hunting. In the purging arena, the Sergeant fights back, killing the hunters. Witnessing this, the host purger calls for backup. Security forces swarm the chamber and kill Shane. Suddenly, the Anti-Purge group led by Carmelo and the Stranger invade the arena and kills more of the purging team. Liz chooses to join the Anti-Purge group to avenge Shane's death while the others leave. Leo hijacks the host purger's car and threatens her before leaving.

By daybreak, the remaining members of the group drive up to a suburban neighborhood and stops at the home of Warren Grass. After telling the story of his son's death, Leo ventures to the house despite Cali begging him to not give in to revenge. He threatens Warren and his wife and exits the house covered in blood, only to be shot by Big Daddy, who reprimands the Leo for trying to play the hero, while also revealing that the New Founding Fathers have secretly dispatched death squads to increase the body count because the Purge eliminates too few of the lower class, possibly due to purgers murdering those who they have personal grudges on and not just random people. Just as Big Daddy is about to kill the Sergeant, Warren appears and kills Big Daddy with his .45, revealing that Leo had forgiven and spared him. As Big Daddy's death squad appears while Eva, Cali, and Warren prepare to defend themselves, sirens blare to signal the end of the purge (making Big Daddy's death legal and sparing Leo). Warren drives Eva, Cali, and Leo to the hospital as news and police helicopters fly over the city.

All the characters from the Purge Anarchy became popular among the people. For example, Leo Barnes or Frank Grillo, the guy wearing the Purge God Mask, also the character that wore the Purge Smile Mask and others.

## Cast

### Starring

* Frank Grillo as Leo Barnes
* Carmen Ejogo as Eva Sanchez
* Zach Gilford as Shane
* Kiele Sanchez as Liz
* Michael K. Williams as Carmelo Johns

### Co-Starring

* Zoë Soul as Cali Sanchez
* John Beasley as Rico Sanchez
* Edwin Hodge as Dante Bishop
* Jack Conley as Big Daddy
* Justina Machado as Tanya
* Roberta Valderrama as Lorraine
* Nico Nicotera as Roddy
* Castulo Guerra as Barney
* Bel Hernandez as Katherine
* Noel Gugliemi as Diego
* Lakeith Stanfield as Ghoul Face
* Brandon Keener as Warren Grass
* Nicholas Gonzalez as Carlos
* Amy Price-Francis as Mrs. Grass
* Lilly Knight as Mrs. Crawley
* Vick Sabitjian as Mr. Sabian
* Wiley B. Oscar as Oscar
* Chad Morgan as Janice
* Judith McConnell as Purge Host
* Jasper Cole as Homeless Man
* Matt Lasky as Bloody Faced Man
* Adrian Sparks as Suited Gent
* Rick Chambers as TV Newscaster 1
* Amy Paffrath as TV Newscaster 2
* Dale Dye as Donald Talbot
* Carla Jimenez as Deranged Woman
* Brad Duke as Posh Father
* Rowan Alexander as Posh Mother
* Roger Schueller as Posh Grandfather
* Michael Thurman as Posh Son
* Branton Box as Bouncer
* Brennan Feonix as Paramedic

### Uncredited

* Stephen Brown as James Cooper
* Jeremy Fitzgerald as Thomas Hearst
* Mike Jerome Putnam as Mr. Lockhart
* Jessica McClain as Lauren Lockhart
* Joe Ochman as Lawrence Renyak
* Unknown as Charles Hearst
* Unknown as Mr. Hearst

## Trivia

* Anarchy is the first film to show more of the carnage during the annual Purge, as it departs from a house setting and takes viewers out to a city to reveal more of what happens to the surroundings, unlike the first film, which is set inside a residence.