The Purge

my favorite movie

This movie is great, good watch.

I like movies that make you think about what if. What if the government let anarchy be free for one day. Going through it logicly, if are government did this what would really happen. Lets start at the beginning, the first purge. Gun sales would go through the roof weeks before the first purge. People would group up for common protection. Churches and other large groups would all band together and form large protection groups. Most people have guns in this country so there would be lots of armed people. The country would shut down weeks before the purge actually happened. Think of truck drivers and military personnel. Would any of them want to be working when there wife and kids might be raped and killed that night?When the first purge happened it would be like a mass riot throughout the country. Do you think people would sit back and do nothing while people go around killing willy nil? No. The police and other people would form there own vigilant groups and kill on sight anyone doing anything immoral. Most people would stay home guarding there houses and most real criminals would too for the first purge. They would want to see if the government would stay true to there word and not prosecute anyone. Only the young thugs willing to riot would hit the streets and would be mowed down by off duty cops and there friends.It would be weeks before normal services came back and people got back to work. We live in a just in time economy and food and gas would be scarce for weeks until things got back to normal. There would be a somewhat of a positive result from the first purge. All the crazy people that wanted to riot would probably be dead. Millions would have died that day but most people would have done the wait and see approce to it, stayed home and shot out the windows at anyone acting crazy.The second purge would be bad. It would be like government ending, states splitting up bad. Most of the real crazies would have done the same thing as everyone else, stay inside and wait and see. If the government held to its word and didn't prosecute anyone for the crimes committed and 911 was off the hook the whole night. They then would have a year to prepare for the next night. During the second purge the country would burn to the ground. Its amazing how much destruction you can do with 10 gallons of gas and no fire department is going to show up. People would have had time to sup there cars up to mini tanks. Lots of fire bugs would have made lots of monolitof cocktails and made plans on how to create the most damage in the time they had. Most major city's would be burnt to the ground. The death toll would be in the tens of millions if not more. The vigilant groups would not be able to stop all the one to four person teams setting fire to everything.After the second purge, the new founding fathers would all be hanged. Most city's would be smoking ruins. The fighting would never stop and most police would be shot on site for letting this happen. Are you going to pay your taxes when the guy who raped your wife and daughters to death lives down the street and winks at you? You're not going to wait another year for justice your going to kill him right now. And shoot the cops that get in your way. Most states would break away from the government and form independent governments. It would take 20 years to rebuild what in one night destroyed.

Fits well and works

As with most movies, I am guilty of perusing an internet movie database to see what everyone else thought of the movie I'm about to see. And like most movies, I normally take this with a grain of salt. Because we've all been there: one person says the movie sucked - you liked it; and another one says the movie was the best thing since unicorns - you hated it. So I watched this with an open mind.The premise is what really drew me in: once a year, the government allows the citizens of the US to basically go all L.A. Riot on people with the intention of 'getting it out of their systems.' Allowing this has supposedly lowered the unemployment rate and dropped the crime rate the other 364 days. Taken at face value, this movie could have gone in so many other ways than what the writers/director chose. Instead, The Purge tells the story from the perspective of a security systems salesperson who appears to be profiting from the annual purge, because, let's face it, if you knew there was a free-for-all-killing-spree once a year, wouldn't YOU want the best security system? ADT should have paid big bucks to get their name in on this!Unfortunately, only from the opening credits do you get a REAL sense of how the annual purge feels from purge feed cameras from all over the US. That's it. You never get any of this the rest of the movie. Instead, there's a lot of talk about it and the entire night of purging centers around the Sandin's. Now, given the fact that this movie was very low budget, I can appreciate the fact that they weren't able to invest a lot in sub-plots and had to resort to shock value in the opening credits (which is basically the hook of the movie); but they could have factored in a lower income family nearby for reasons I'll explain later.The movie attempts to factor in that even though the purge seems to be openly accepted by society (it's all over the news and radio; even mentioning about how great the economy is because of it), there's still a moral dilemma involved - especially when you see someone begging and pleading for help. It also factors in that no one is safe from the wrath of human thinking. And you get the feeling right away that the other people in the neighborhood are jealous. And it actually executes on these pretty well. However, there's a lot it missed the mark on. Aaaaand...go:1. If it's 2022, security systems (especially the most expensive) are STILL hackable? I mean, if the purge is such a big event where there is NO law enforcement, wouldn't Mr. Sandin's company create unhackable security systems? I agree youngsters are pretty nerdy, but c'mon, it was too easy. And if they were able to easily cut the power, couldn't they have just as easy opened the security doors? Why even go through the trouble of turning the lights off?2. Eliminate the boyfriend. I mean, they actually DID eliminate him, but I meant from the script. He served no purpose. He had a brief role and then was killed. And very shoddy I might say. Everything in movies must help drive the story along - this didn't. You immediately get the notion the bf is going to play some role, especially when he's seen in the house after lockdown. You start to wonder if he's part of the whole master plan. Instead, he wants to kill the dad because he won't let him see his daughter? !?! "Honey, I killed your dad, the man who raised you and gave you everything you ever wanted, so that we could be together. Will you marry me?" Seriously? Anyway, moving on...3. Everyone seems way too comfortable that there's a stranger in the house. And while we're on the subject of the stranger...how about a bit more back story on him? Why did they want him so bad? There are literally thousands of homeless people...why that one? Maybe he was part of a resistance against the purge and were out to stop the people purging. Like, purging the purgers. Because this guy was a beast with a gun. Anything other than he just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Furthermore, homeless people normally have a place to go to eat and sleep called "the shelter"...surely by then there would be a shelter to keep them safe the purge, no? Maybe that could have been a great premise...homeless people boarded up in a homeless shelter banding together to save themselves from the annual purge.4. Your boyfriend just tried to kill your dad and there's a bloody stranger in the house, what do you do? Drag your dead boyfriend to your room, cry over him, ignore the fact he just tried to kill your dad, and ignore that the bloody stranger in your house could be trying to kill you. Go ahead and run from your parents when they try to help you after the lights go off, too. Teenagers. Ugh.5. I realize it's a big house, but is it so big that others couldn't hear all of the gunshots and not come running to that one spot?6. Dozens of state of the art cameras to watch what's going on outside and you don't have one single camera watching the INSIDE of your house?7. You've got a bunch of crafty youngsters who just took out a state of the art security system only to be taken out by a group of ritzy wine drinking neighbors who rush in like agents from the Matrix. Poor execution.8. You have a house bigger than most people dream about. You have a top-of-the-line (albeit very hackable) security system. You live in a neighborhood not prone to purges. And yet you're jealous your neighbor has a bigger house than you and makes more money? And THAT'S your reason for wanting to purge? I realize greed is powerful, but this just seemed way too rushed.9. All of your neighbors just tried to mass execute your entire family and you choose to make them wait until the purge is over? Well that should make for some awkward block parties the other 364 days of the year. Basically you just gave them 364 days to think about how they're going to kill you. And you couldn't say anything more clever than a speech about peace? It just seemed too rushed.Did anyone else notice the toy that Max's remote toy looked a lot like a toy from Toy Story?So given a small budget, the movie wasn't that bad. It could have just been executed a bit better. A lot of times, I'm happy with the way the story of a movie unfolds; this one, not so much. The Sandin's narrowly escaping their multi-million dollar safe haven to the confines of the stranger's homeless shelter area and making a stand there would have been so much more entertaining. It would have given more back story to the stranger and more effectively shown that it doesn't matter how much money you have - you're always vulnerable. However, some people felt they did something right because there's already a sequel in the mix. Maybe Mrs. Sandin attempts to purge her neighbors as revenge.

As the title says its a good suspenseful movie.

This is an interesting concept of "what if?" While the movie itself did not necessarily creep me out, the idea this could be a thing is certainly creepy. Enjoyed the movie.

Great movie

実際あったら怖い内容です。大変楽しめました。

Ein Film, bei dem ich hin und hergerissen bin. 5 Sterne, weil er nachdenklich macht, aber eigentlich könnte ich gleich ein paar Sterne abziehen, weil er stellenweise auf ausgetretenen Pfaden wandelt und teils zu vorhersehbar ist. Das wird aber durch den End-Twist aufgefangen, der die Perversität der Story nochmal drastisch vor Augen führt und den Inhalt des Films hervorragend widerspiegelt.Die Bluray weist ein gutes Bild auf, sicherlich keine Referenz, aber HD-Feeling war bei mir vorhanden (wobei ich Filme nicht nach der Qualität des Bildes einordnen möchte). Der Ton war zu jeder Zeit gut verständlich und die Musik macht hier keinen Unterschied.Von mir eine Empfehlung, mit dem Hinweis, dass der zweite Teil ja auch in den Startlöchern steht.

La edición Alemana de The Purge tiene audio Castellano. La puntuo con cinco estrellas porque el comentario anterior de una estrella que no aporta nada en absoluto, le fastidia la nota a una película que podría esta mejor pero que tampoco es un bodrio.La calidad de imagen es muy buena. La portada es reversible como todos los títulos Universal de Alemania, así podremos quitar de la portada el sello de calificación de edades.

1年に1度、12時間だけ殺人を含む犯罪が合法となる【パージ】の日。各家庭は侵入等に対し、セキュリティを強化するなど対策をしていた。主人公はそのセキュリティ対策システムを販売している営業のビジネスマンとその一家。パージが始まった午後7時頃、監視カメラに映った一人の男。何かから逃げており、助けてくれと叫んでいる。たまらず邸内に迎え入れる主人公一家の息子。そして貧民やホームレスを浄化(殺害)する事が国の安寧につながると思い込む集団との戦いが始まる。特に終盤、近隣住民とのストーリーが面白かったです。人が何故、法に従うのか。法の鎖から解き放たれた時の感情はどういう影響を及ぼすのか。実際にあったとしたら恐ろしいと思うような内容で楽しめました。

Una película que te mantiene en tensión constantemente.Una buena purga se ve que da buenos resultados.El final es lo mejor. Necesito una careta así.