I recently saw the movie, The Purge and let me start by saying, I wish I could purge the memory of seeing this movie from my mind. It started out slow and then didn't pick up pace until the movie was almost over. I have some major problems with the story and characters of this movie that I just can't get over. So here we go. The major things I had a problem with in the The Purge.
1. First off, super predictable movie. They make the resentment from the neighbors so obvious that we all know that they will eventually try to "purge" Ethan Hawke's family. Also predictable was that the daughter's boyfriend wants to "talk" to the disapproving father on the one night that murder is legal. Yeah I'm calling bullshit on that one. He's there to kill Ethan Hawke.
2. The children have no redeemable qualities. They're stupid and make terrible life decisions. The boy lets a stranger into his house as a supposed good deed but the resulting chain of events lead to the deaths of at least a dozen people including his father. Good job, kid. I don't know who's dumber, the boy for letting a stranger into his house, and I'll say this again, ON THE ONE NIGHT THAT MURDER IS LEGAL, or Ethan Hawke for trusting his dumbass kid with the code to their home security system. Then there's the girl. She knowingly runs throughout the house while A- the power is out, B- there's a random homeless dude wandering about inside, C- her family has been threatened, and D- she knows that her family is gathered in that one room upstairs. The only good thing she does in this movie is kill the lead, creepy, preppy looking, douchebag in what is perhaps the least climactic death I've ever seen.
3. On 4 separate occasions, at least 1 member of this stupid family is about to be killed by someone, but then miraculously, the assailant is brutally shot to death. Once, ok that's cool. Twice, yeah slightly coincidental. Three times, this is ridiculous. Four times, I give up.
4. This is my biggest problem with the movie and if this stupid family had done this, maybe Ethan Hawke wouldn't have died. So they have the homeless guy captured and they're about to turn him over but instead Ethan Hawke has a change of heart and decides that they're going to fight instead. So he takes Lena Headey over to the arsenal and they dual wield some pistols to fight. But wait, the homeless guy is still tied up... I'm sure he'd like to fight back as well. Why not give him a gun and have him help out? Because that would make too much sense.
5. Lena Headey is badass. She's the queen from 300. She played Sarah Connor in that one Terminator show and she's Cersei in Game of Thrones. In The Purge, she sucks. She can't even hold onto her guns and she doesn't kill a single person. She should've had a much stronger character and role in the movie.
All in all, this movie is entertaining if you don't look into it too much. It was marketed as more of a horror movie but it is definitely not that.
Bonus
1. Despite growing populations, The Purge would never happen because every other nation would take action as a result of the blatant human rights violations.
2. The Purge starts at 7pm and continues until 7am. Does this mean that The Purge is a rolling phenomenon with time zones or does every time zone start at the same time 7pm Pacific Standard Time, 10pm Eastern Standard Time?
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