Recently I watched The Purge UK (2015) and it damn near killed my faith in the Purge concept. It was a truly dire fan made film so I went into this with really really low expectations. To my surprise it's actually perfectly watchable stuff and clearly had people behind the camera who knew what they were doing. The whole thing looks the part and far more professional than you'd expect from such an outing. There isn't much in the way of a story, merely a group of 'Purgers' descending on their prey but getting more of a fight than they expected. Again it looks great and overcomes a lot of inevitable limitations they'll have suffered in its production. Though it's nothing groundbreaking it's watchable, it's well constructed and personally I quite liked it.
Jun 07, 2013 The Purge tries to make you feel isolated/alone in a small area with people hunting you, much like how the first Alien movie did. But The Purge relies too much on jump-scares to scare you, which is not a good tactic for horror movies. Good horror has slow-building tension and a release, two things that The Purge has none of.
I tip my hat to everyone involved, with a larger budget I'm confident you'd make a better Purge movie than Hollywood has managed thus far. The Good: Looks great Loved the ending The Bad: Not much to it.
'We are inherently a violent species. War, genocide, murder. The denial of our true selves is the problem.' — The PurgeFor all the flaws of last year's surprisingly successful dystopian thriller The Purge, it did mirror reality in one significant way: just as its characters are subjected to an annual Purge, America will now be subjected to an annual installment in the Purge franchise.
Tomorrow sees the release of The Purge: Anarchy, and if it's even moderately successful, it will pave the way for The Purge 3.Both The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy take place in a near-future America in which all crime is legalized for 12 hours once a year. These are the rules, as established in a TV broadcast before the Purge begins:1. Weapons of Class 4 and lower have been authorized for use during the Purge. All other weapons are restricted.2.
Government officials of ranking 10 have been granted immunity from the Purge and shall not be harmed.3. Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours.4.
Police, fire, and emergency medical services will be unavailable until tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. When the Purge concludes.Both Purge movies are set in the early 2020s, a decision that more than anything feels like a way to avoid a CGI extravaganza and keep production costs down. But if writer/director James DeMonaco's timeline is accurate, that means we'll soon reach the point at which are totally fine with 12 hours of legalized crime — including murder, as the government bizarrely and repeatedly emphasizes. How did it happen?The Purge is annoyingly opaque about the political and social landscape of its universe, but offers some helpful history. These are the basics: in 2014, several unspecified incidents led to 'a public outcry for protection and vengeance against the increasing number of homeless.'
The solution, apparently, was the Purge, which was formally established by a constitutional amendment in 2019.It probably goes without saying that this is a ridiculous idea. But as The Purge: Anarchy hits theaters — and, it should be said, explores the societal ramifications of its central event in far more detail than the original — I couldn't resist playing The Purge's game. For the sake of argument, let's go ahead and pretend that we live in a world where the Purge will be instituted within a decade. What can we expect?LegalLegalizing crime for 12 hours is a simple enough concept on paper — but even a cursory analysis reveals some thorny legal problems.In the real world, people who announce that they plan to kill someone — like, say, a man who phones a radio talk show to declare that he will kill his boss during the Purge — can be. In the state of California, where The Purge is set, that can carry as much as a four-year prison sentence. Does the law also protect people from being prosecuted for crimes they threaten to commit during the Purge?Even the rules of the Purge are fraught with complications. If all police services are unavailable until 7 a.m.
The following morning, how does anyone enforce the rule about Class 4 weapons, or the prohibition on killing government officials? At the end of The Purge, Lena Headey's assailants leave her home in peace as soon as the sirens ring. But what would happen if they killed her at 7:01 a.m., when her guard was down, and before police had time to take the streets again? If you shoot someone before the Purge ends, but she dies after it ends, can you be brought up on charges because you 'killed' her outside of the strictly mandated time window?And what about crimes that aren't murder? Let's say someone enters a neighbor's home during the Purge and forces him to sign over the deeds to his house and car. When the Purge is over, are those documents legally binding?
Or could the neighbor successfully sue, under normal law, to get his property back?