Review of The Purge: Election Year (2016) by James R — 02 May 2018
Man this one was bad. I'm not saying the previous two Purge films were any better (I gave em both 2 stars each), but man this one is just kinda....there. This time around the Purge is centered around a political election with Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) trying to seek the Presidency of the United States and with it end the Purge.
Her opponent Minister Edwidge Owens (Kyle Secor) opposes this (since his crazy ass supports the Purge 100%) and his party decides to assassinate Senator Roan on the Purge night. If you don't know what the Purge is it's a night every year where for 12 hours all crime including murder is legal.
This supposedly has lowered crime and all that jazz, but as we can tell by the last two movies it's a nightmare for people that don't have murdering tendencies. We follow our hero from The Purge: Anarchy (2014) Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) who is now head of security for the Senator.
Anywho, the story here the Minister's people try and come to kill the Senator, but it's up to Leo and some civilians to help the Senator survive the night. The movie's plot is just....yeah.
It's so predictable and the formula here hasn't changed from the previous Purge film. There's actually very little kills here and the gore is upped from the last film, but it just doesn't matter.
The random killings are just that...random. I never cared for the characters too much and I found myself glancing at my watch every few minutes to see when this movie was going to be done. The film is about an hour and 50 minutes long and I felt like it woulda helped to be 20 minutes less.
The film is aimed for fans of the previous films, but if you didn't like those two just like I did then this one's not going to change your mind. Skip it.
This review of The Purge: Election Year (2016) was written by James R on 02 May 2018.
The Purge: Election Year has generally received mixed reviews.
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