The Purge: Anarchy

Ugh. The original Purge had a good idea and promise but fell flat in the execution in the last half. It's like if you cooked a great piece of chicken and left half of it out to rot before you finished it.

This one is the braindead cousin that is like if you took a raw chicken and left it out to become raw from start to finish. Instead of doing something fascinating like maybe filming the sequel based on the aftermath of the original Purge, or maybe filming it from the lead "purgers" perspective, we repeat the same old shit from the first one. The only difference is the characters. There's a mother to root for, her sassy daughter, a soon to be divorced couple working on their issues, and a father with a moral conflict of purging with a justification of revenge. 

There's very little point of listing the characters's names or the actors who play them since no one behind writing this movie seemed to want us to have any interest in the people onscreen. They're all so thinly written besides these attributes I just mentioned you don't know anything about anyone in this movie making you care very little about whatever shit happens. And what's even worse is that everything is so predictable you can see who is going to die/be in danger of dying from about a mile away.

The whole movie feels so lazy and underwritten it's as creative as someone throwing a sheet over their head for scares. Literally nothing goes on minus shooting for the entire 100 minutes, and damn is that 100 minutes stretched like Gum. And did we really need a slo-mo scene every time the lead purgers came on? There's so many laughable elements here I can't see anyone taking the central idea seriously over our government allowing and encouraging us to kill for 12 hours in order to keep the country happier.

When (there's no doubt in my mind this will become like the Saw franchise) the next Purge comes out, I'm making a public announcement that I will purge. In both senses of the word, this lackluster do-do birded entry will make me kill other human beings while forcing myself to vomit knowing that we have to endure more of this.

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