The Purge

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Anyone seen the trailer for this? Sounds like a good enough concept for a decent thriller flick...

In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It's one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.
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The idea looks great, unfortunately it looks to be centred around a typical "family in house siege", I expect one good "twist" and that will be that.
 
As a sci-fi fan and popcorn movie lover I can take pretty much any plot hole and premise and just enjoy it. But the problem I have here is I simply can't believe any government would do this.

Can you imagine what we are told by the media are the naughty places of the world right now doing it? Iran? China? Afghanistan? And The West wouldn't get involved?

Saying all that probably a very enjoyable movie :p
 
I've seen the trailer and this looks interesting. Quite a nice twist on the genre. I'll give it a shot as I like to support films that at least attempt to crack the mould, even if they don't break it.
 
JBod said:
As a sci-fi fan and popcorn movie lover I can take pretty much any plot hole and premise and just enjoy it. But the problem I have here is I simply can't believe any government would do this.

Can you imagine what we are told by the media are the naughty places of the world right now doing it? Iran? China? Afghanistan? And The West wouldn't get involved?

Saying all that probably a very enjoyable movie :p
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It's not that believable, but I don't think that will put me off, after all I've enjoyed plenty of completely 'out there' films! :)
 
I agree it seems strange that this 12-hour crime amnesty would serve any purpose, but surely it's no less believable than any zombie apocalypse, or monster/alien invasion type movie.
 
div0 said:
I agree it seems strange that this 12-hour crime amnesty would serve any purpose, but surely it's no less believable than any zombie apocalypse, or monster/alien invasion type movie.
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Zombies, Aliens or Monters seems some how more believable than a government allowing anarchy for 12-hours. For starters normal folk would simply want to leave the country and live elsewhere.
 
JBod said:
Zombies, Aliens or Monters seems some how more believable than a government allowing anarchy for 12-hours. For starters normal folk would simply want to leave the country and live elsewhere.
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But those movies have been done before, they're getting old... I much prefer a movie bringing a new concept to the table even if it isn't realistic.
 
Has anyone been to see this yet? Worth spending 7 quid on?

Edit - seems this is for the first film and I mean the sequel anarchy... ah well that one slipped by!
 
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The premise is just too ridiculous a 12 hour amnesty of that nature would just cull more of the law abiding meeker people and leave the stronger criminal elements in an even stronger position and just increase future crime.
 
Bumping a bit of an old thread but rather than start a new one - at least for me this slipped under the radar but Amazon Prime TV series based on this coming soon:


Hope its good the original Purge movie was a bit of a guilty pleasure.
 
Rroff said:
Bumping a bit of an old thread but rather than start a new one - at least for me this slipped under the radar but Amazon Prime TV series based on this coming soon:


Hope its good the original Purge movie was a bit of a guilty pleasure.
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Weirdly enough I stumbled upon the fact this is under production today. I was watching Election Day and googled a cast member and bang, there it was.

I'm a bit skeptical, I really liked the first film and the subsequent ones have been okay as escapism (a bit like the DeathRace films, little of substance but keeps me amused on the train) but I just don't know if they'll pull it off in a longer format. The star of the films has always been the premise, new and more inventive set pieces and stylish shooting, the longer form will rely on building character arcs and I just don't know if I care enough to want to explore characters in that setting.

I will give the first episode a watch though.
 
Richard - London said:
1st - Ok
2nd - Pretty good
3rd - best
4th - Better then 1&2 but not as good as 3.
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I watched three the other day and honestly it contains a shed load of incredibly forced and unnatural dialogue, it was genuinely quite cringe-inducing to watch at times. I stuck with it because the action was okay, the cinematography was sound and the premise had been advanced sufficiently (I like the idea of the Purge expanding into murder tourism) but it really was pretty bad.
 
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