The Purge: Election Year France, USA 2016 – 110min.
Movie Rating
The Purge: Election Year
2030. Introduced by the new Founding Fathers to save an America in crisis, every year The Purge offers a night of chaos during which crimes are not punished and every citizen can listen to their baser instincts. A bloody tradition that senator and presidential candidate Charlie Roan is trying to abolish, despite fierce opposition. But for the 24th Purge, her political enemies decide to change the rules: no one will be protected, not even politicians or elites. With help from her bodyguard Leo Barnes and a group of people also against The Purge, Roan tries to survive another night that will affect the future of the country...
Originally, The Purge was a fun B movie starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, built around an excellent idea worthy of a Twilight Zone episode. Three years later, it has became a bad franchise run by a studio trying for a simplistic cash cow in the vein of Paranormal Activity. The Purge: Election Night, again directed by James DeMonaco, is a series of horror sketches with no surprises, weighed down by uninteresting characters and unconvincing actors (mainly Frank Grillo and Elizabeth Mitchell). It tries to offer a clear political discourse and a systematic attack on the American culture of violence, but the result is as grotesque and cheap as the maniacs who disguise themselves with American symbols to kill.
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