For One Night Only, America Invites You To Its Annual Tradition...
A former policeman has become head of security for a presidential
candidate targeted for death due to her vow to end a night when all
crime is legal. As they escape assassins sent to kill them, they must
team with a group of people fighting the random violence of the night.
Leo
Barnes is the head of security for a senator who is a presidential
hopeful, but first he must help her survive the night when the Purge
rules now include members of government. Senator Charlie Roan is a
survivor of a Purge night where members of her family were killed and
will pass a law to end the Purge if she can survive the present one to
become president. Joe Dixon is a convenience store owner who has just
lost his Purge insurance and must now protect his store from looters on
the night of the Purge with his meager weaponry. Dante Bishop is the
head of the underground network of Anti-Purge rebels with a plan to
eliminate the key members of the New Founding Fathers of America who
started the Purge.
The
Purge: Election Year is a shadow of its former self as it introduces
new characters that are caricatures of those introduced in former
installments. As I watched this third movie in the Purge franchise I was
expecting them to expand the universe in a way the second one built
upon the foundation of the first, but this new film fails to do so with a
lack of depth and shoddy characterization. I could not believe that
James DeManaco wrote and directed this sequel that comes off as a pale
imitation of his two superior films. The first movie was like watching
Attack on Precinct 13 and the second film was akin to The Warriors with a
note on the class system, but this one went the easy way of playing the
race card with weak performances and crappy dialogue. It is always
disheartening to see the third movie of a trilogy be such an inferior
product when compared to its predecessors that it cheapens the quality
of the series.
I rate this flick a 2 out of 5.
In Theaters
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Rouén Robinson has been an
avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures
for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for
The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for F
LIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen
