Fire
It CAN’T travel through wooden closet doors.
It CAN turn night into day in a second.
(I know they blocked the windows, but the scene started at night, couldn’t have lasted for more than 45 minutes in real time, and now it’s bright, though cloudy.)
And after the events of this film, where’s the logic that the government would turn around and do another one a year later? I guess they didn’t want to look like failures? Also, according to the first Purge movie the first Purge started in 2014. These movies might have a continuity problem. Election Year supposedly takes place in 2032.
Wait, hold that thought. I’m sitting here writing this during the end credits and they were just interrupted by a TV commercial? This movie has a TV commercial in it. I know people get annoyed by Marvel-like credits scenes, but this is a new low. A Purge TV series! This concept hasn’t been milked enough? We got to drag it over to USA? Where characters are welcome!?!
Okay, I’ve come to the conclusion that these movies aren’t for me. The closest we’ve got to resembling anything decent was the second film. The rest of them have tried my patience to put it mildly, and it’s a shame because the original idea if executed properly could’ve made for an intriguing film. Or at least a fun sleazy one. Instead the original was a bore and the last two haven’t strayed far enough from the second one to do anything of note.
I think these movies are supposed to be cathartic or enlightening in some way. For me, they’re not. They’re obvious and cloying.
The only positive thing I can say about this or any other Purge film is that it’s allowed Jason Blum and Blumhouse to branch out and make whatever they want. If this leads to more Get Out’s or Halloween’s (please be good...also, the poster for the new one was up in the kid’s bedroom even though this takes place in 2014), then maybe it’ll be worth it.
*If Y’Ian Noel isn’t in a proper action movie after this then Hollywood is doing something wrong.
*Marisa Tomei and her character are unbelievably wasted. Her character was ripe to just chew away the scenery with villainy being the architect and all. Instead her second-in-command gets those lines and she’s unceremoniously killed off on a security camera.
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