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The Purge: Election Year

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The Purge: Election Year (2016)

July. 01,2016
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Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government forces Barnes and Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night.

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CrawlerChunky
2016/07/01

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Arianna Moses
2016/07/02

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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Tayyab Torres
2016/07/03

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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Frances Chung
2016/07/04

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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DarthVoorhees
2016/07/05

The idea of the purge is far more interesting than the two movies I've seen in the series. I really was disappointed by the first film as I felt it took this interesting larger idea and brought it down to a small home invasion boogeyman horror film. 'Election Year' is a better film than the first Purge movie because it actually explores the dystopian world. It's no surprise that the scenes with the drolly titled new founding fathers are the best and scariest of the film. There's always been a correlation between our societal fears and our horror films and these scenes show a mirror of the ugly kind of climate we live in right now.The thing that sort of disappointed me is that for the most part we don't get much of these villains. The movie for the most part is still a boogeyman chase film. It's a larger spectacle than the first film and with characters who are more likable and well developed but inevitably it gets kind of boring seeing these nameless drones go after our heroes. If the film didn't have leads like Elizabeth Mitchell and Mykelti Williamson I might have tuned out. They treat the material with the utmost sincerity. The successful moments of the film belong to them. It's needed because James DeMonaco isn't that great of a screenwriter. The scenes without the far out philosophical purge commentary play like a bad 'Friday the 13th' clone. DeMonaco is really the factor holding back this film from being really good. He's a mediocre screenwriter who has just enough little sprinkles of intriguing ideas to keep you invested in the midsts of bad dialogue and plot setup. As a director he is a waste. Obviously the purge takes place at night but that doesn't necessitate the film actually being so dark you have trouble seeing what is going on. The action and chase sequences are a cluster of chaos too. You can't tell what the heck is happening.The cleverest commentary sort of falls to the wayside by the end. The film sets up the Purge villains as hypocrites who want to use the chaos to commit genocide on the poor to keep the rich rich. They use religious symbolism to justify it. Brilliant stuff. But to get into spoilers if I may when we finally confront the minister(played by Kyle Secor who gives one of the more effective horror performances in recent memory), it turns out he is actually a fanatic who believes in the purge on that face value religious philosophy. Wouldn't it be more effective if he were the hypocrite the heroes accused him of being?It's a mediocre movie with some truly excellent moments. DeMonaco should let more talented film makers play in his 'Purge' universe.

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undeaddt
2016/07/06

Long story short, this sequel wasn't needed. It is blank, it is forced, it is empty, it is nothing new and interesting, it is just a destruction of The Purge idea. This movie is just repeating the concept with some politics involved in the plot and does not deliver in any sort of way. The persons who purge are some wacky stupid teenagers that act and look funny, without a reason to purge, their guns are flashy, their masks are flashy and their hairstyles unic. The movie just loses it's sense and awesomeness that the second sequel managed to develope.

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kidmoe
2016/07/07

Like most Hollywood movies, The Purge: Hillary's Election Year makes no attempt to hide it's political leanings: Good "minorities", good White women, and a few token good White men vs the racist, horrible, racist, evil, racist, mean, racist White men.Towards the beginning of the movie, the idea of "murder tourists" (foreigners who travel to the U.S. to partake in the Purge) intrigued me. When introduced, the movie makes a point of showcasing murder tourists from South Africa. I didn't really think about it at the time, but later in the film, we find out why they were so specifically identified as South African (SPOILER ALERT!-its because they're bad, evil racism-fuled racists! Although when the South Africans are introduced early in the movie, they seem to have at least one Black man in their party)Other than the "murder tourists", the film follows standard issue Hollywood formula: Hillary is poised to defeat Donald and end the Purge, which her saintly minority followers all totally grok. Meanwhile, Donald's evil skinhead KKK Nazi followers don't want the Purge to end, so they haphazardly try to kill Hillary. They fail and Hillary is now in a position to overthrow evil Donald's regime. Or is she?!?!?

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Smoreni Zmaj
2016/07/08

After first movie I gave up on this franchise, but I changed my mind after I heard that sequels are better from several sources. Unbelievable, but true. While The Purge is unoriginal lame nonsense, Anarchy is decent action movie and I must admit that third one is good. It's far from greatness, but for an action movie Election Year is even slightly above average, and compared to its predecessors it's far batter. If we ignore the fact that premise is ridiculous, this movie is first in franchise which plot actually make sense and in which tension is build more on story essence than on shallow action scenes.7/10

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