The Purge (Post-release)

[PantheraGem]

Yet the family is saved by some extremely destructive hardware, and it's in these scenes that the audience eats up the movie. If anything, this movie is going to sell some guns. As always, the minds of Hollywood are a well thought-out machine.

I can't feel too bad about spending money to see the movie. If I only spent money on filmmakers' movies who's views align with my own, I'd never see anything.

 

[Art Andrews]

What a waste of time, with thinly veiled policital overtones and one of the most unlikable families in memory. As so many have said... such potential, but even how the idea is fleshed out is just a ridiculous and unbelievble notion and so many absurd moments that I stopped counting. I love low budget movies that do something different, but this one was just lame from beginning to end.

 

[The Terminator]

When I saw the trailer I just thought of what I think was an episode of some tv show, perhaps the Outer Limits. Where this main character gets transported from his reality to an alternate reality where once a week a random person gets selected... and the people have to kill him/her.. :wacko

Though this film looks even worse.

 

[Art Andrews]

I have been sitting and thinking about what I watched and I really feel like the primary failure comes down to the writing. You start with a premise that, as The Terminator said, might have worked for a TV episode of the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, but just doesn't hold up, even for a moment of scrutinty as the basis for a society (and I am just going to ignore the offensive and ludicrious statements from the director) to resolve their problems, as is so clearly evidenced by the end of the film (how many MILLIONS of situations like that would this scenario create???). So you start with an untennable premise... and from there, you immediately create a scenario based on a kid knowing the security code for a system that literally means the difference between the life and death of the family... and from there... it just goes down hill...

 

[The Terminator]

Thanks to trailers (that spoil the whole film) we don't even need to pay for tickets