Review of The Purge: Anarchy (2014) by Rob Y — 08 Jun 2015

Familiar and uninspired, Purge: Anarchy suffers because there was a film before it, as no originality can be gleaned. The film telegraphs where it's going to go immediately, the characters are hopelessly clichéd or one-note, and the action not particularly effective. Does the film do what it sets out to do? Well there's violence and contrived interpersonal dynamics, but nothing is added to the mythology. Instead, the reasoning behind the purge and the opposition to it feel like race-baiting stereotypes or imagined villains. There's no real sense of stakes with this Purge.

A misfire.

2/5 Stars.