Review of The Purge: Anarchy (2014) by Dcedmonds — 02 Dec 2014

"The Purge: Anarchy" 10 Scale Rating: 5.0 (Mediocre) ...

The Good: Frank Grillo carries the film and is the only character worth watching. His story is actually somewhat interesting and he's a complete badass. Aside from him, there are a few poignant scenes that were well done and provided solid social commentary. The decision to show what happens during the yearly Purge at the street level, was a good idea. The ending was decent enough though, and it was clearly a better film than the first.

The Bad: While showing the Purge in the streets as opposed to the home invasion of the first film was a good idea, it degenerates into pretty standard fare pretty quickly. Aside from the few aforementioned scenes, there is nothing that we haven't already seen several times before in better films. With the exception of Grillo's character, I didn't care about anyone else as they were one-dimensional and uninteresting. It really didn't matter to me who lived and who died. Lastly, as our group of survivors went from one safe place to another, strange and outlandish things seemed to always happen. This got old pretty early.