Film Review – The Purge

“The Purge” has a crackerjack premise it takes absolutely no interest
in. It’s a disappointing feature that contains a substantial amount of
stupidity, asking its audience to digest an entire buffet of illogic as
it discards any hope for a profoundly satiric or meditative approach to a
futureworld story of government-branded nationwide order via
unspeakable violence. “The Purge” is careless work, more interested in
summoning a haunted house atmosphere of cliched chills than exhaustively
working over the potential of the piece, bringing to the screen a dire
depiction of a world gone mad. Instead, the movie runs through the
motions, gradually lobotomizing itself over 85 wasteful minutes.
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