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THE PURGE I have been waiting to see this movie for quite a while now. I saw the trailer a while ago and loved the idea. This is a highly anticipated movie for me. America is a peaceful country since a new law has been introduced… for one night a year, all crime is legal! The police, ambulance and fire services are not available for 12 hours. So during that night, as you can imagine is hell. The whole country has turned into a riot… murder, rape, arson, robbery… you name it… it is happening and is legal. One wealthy family lock their house down with really high tech equipment and everything is fine during the night of purging… until the young son hears someone screaming for help and decides to open the security to help him… now their house is targeted by a large group. It is a very good thriller and it did not disappoint. There were a few moments where it was very predictable… I saw a few of the moments coming before they happened… but there were also a few surprise moments. The ending is really good too. The movie stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane & Edwin Hodge. Everyone did a great job in their roles… but the only problem I have is with Lena. She did a great job in this, but unfortunately I think she has been typecast as a bad person. I have seen her in Game of Thrones & Dredd and she plays a mean bitch in both of them and she plays it well. I just didn't quite believe she was the housewife victim she was portraying in this movie. But the star of the movie for me was Rhys Wakefield. He played the leader of the group outside… and he was great. The way he played the character was actually really polite and nice, but with a very mean streak. I thought it was a nice touch and he did a brilliant job. The action is great and there are some nice twists. Seeing as the whole movie is set in one house, it gives it a sense of entrapment. You don't get bored either… it has a great suspense about it. Excellently shot and well made. I am so glad that this highly anticipated movie was not a disappointment for me. I was hoping to see it in the cinema, but I missed it… apparently it was in the cinema for only a week. It didn't have enough publicity really… this film deserved a lot more publicity as I believe it would have been more popular that it is. I will give it 7 out of 10. "Incoming reports show this year's Purge has been the most successful to date, with the most murders committed."

In 2022, the United States of America celebrates once a year "The Purge", a 12-hour period when any crime is allowed including murder. The result is a economical growth and society free of homeless, sick and unproductive persons. James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) is a successful salesman that sells security systems for the houses. He lives with his wife Mary (Lena Headey) and his teenage son Charlie (Max Burkholder) and daughter Zoey (Adelaide Kane) in a fancy house in the suburb. During the purge, James seals his house and plans to watch a movie with his family. However, Charlie sees a stranger (Edwin Hodge) fleeing from a group that is hunting him down and he disarms the security device and lets the man in. But the leader (Rhys Wakefield) of the group gives an ultimatum to James: if he does not deliver the man to the group, they would kill the whole family. Now James has to find where the man is hidden and decide his fate. "The Purge" is a stupid movie with an absurd storyline that may be reasonable for American people that lives in a country frequently in war and with a powerful armament industry and armed citizens. But it is hard to swallow the explanation of the purge in most of the countries since the story is totally unbelievable. How could a society live without regret and rage on the day after of such savagery? Jealousy would become grieve, hatred, need of revenge on the next day no matter the laws. In addition, in a society living this way, the moron Charlie could never have the codes of the security system. In the end, this movie is a senseless garbage. My vote is one (awful). Title (Brazil): "Uma Noite de Crime" ("One Night of Crime")

By the year 2022, America has become so nihilistic that it deems necessary one night of the year where people can commit any crime legally, in order to better benefit the economy. This provides the framework for "The Purge" a horror/thriller/sci- fi/social statement/dystopian movie that is ultimately too unsure of itself. The film tries to juggle themes of unemployment, the 1percenters, out of control youths and the American dream while also juggling the standard conventions of a paint-by-numbers horror in the house movie. All this added baggage turns whatever the film makers were trying to say into incomprehensible background noise, when all they can manage to convey is: "Boo Jumpscare!", "Look at our creepy villains!" and "I bet no-one who sees this will be old enough to remember Straw Dogs!". Ethan Hawke (who looks really haggard here) plays the father of a family of four, Lena Heady plays the miscast wife and two kids no-one will ever see again after this movie play the kids. I'm not just saying these things to be cruel. I promise you wont ever see Ethan Hawke half-ass it through a movie like you will here, I guess after Training Day he just gave up trying to be good in movies. Lena Heady is a fantastic actress, but she is in totally the wrong role here. Heady dominates the screen playing icy, disdainful strong women roles (Dredd, GoT) but is stuck playing the most bland generic motherly figure possible to write, she takes a mundane role and adds nothing to it. The children were horrible, i don't need to go into them any more. Rhys Wakefield steals the show as the polite leading member of a gang of murderers, a good example of what a creepy face and smile combo can bring. But what really sinks The Purge is the fact that no character in the movie acts like a real person does, it's all contrived to get the movie going. Characters switch motivations in the blink of an eye, only seeing the danger of the situation when the script suits it. After being told of their impending death unless they surrender a homeless man seeking refuge in their home, the family does almost nothing to keep themselves safe, they obviously don't care enough about their family to save their lives. The dialogue had me rolling on the floor though, "surrender the homeless pig" and "let us purge their souls for America" are likely to have audiences howling. A common scenario in this movie, was to have one of the main characters held at gun point or some other situation of imminent death, only to be saved by some other character off camera. This was fine the first time or second, but after about the eighth it was becoming predictable and laughable. Plus this movie is short, it barely scrapes 80 minutes. I get the impression they filmed this movie in a week inside some rich white persons home and then slapped the movie together without really having much footage to edit. The Purge is a bad movie, plain and simple. It's themes aren't though out, the actors aren't trying, the characters behave irrationally, the intense moments are hysterical, the editing is choppy and clumsy, the scenario is unbelievable and poorly staged and its not even long enough to really get mad over because it ends so soon. It may have had a pretty cool idea for a premise, but the execution sank this sucker. I expected better from Platinum Dunes.