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I can also reiterate the fact I'm really enjoying these write ups. Y'all are much better than me at concisely getting your point across haha. Really fun to read through all of these though, and I was desperate for this sort of discussion after watching almost all of these films.

The Purge isnt really all that serious of a concept. They can act like it is all they want, but its just not. And Im fine with that.

See, I think I would've liked Purge Anarchy so much more if it didn't feel like it was up its own butt. It just feels like it thinks its clever and it is decidedly not so. I'm all for fun action movies but I wasn't getting those vibes from this.

The ending with Leo choosing to purge himself of his anger through forgiveness rather than violence was predictable but nonetheless cathartic.

Yeah that was maybe the high point for me as well in terms of the story. Predictable, like you said, but still was about the best way things could be wrapped up. Although if I'm getting nitpicky, I was thoroughly confused as to why Punisher disabled the guys security system and he somehow didn't notice or check in the weeks coming up to the ALL DAY LEGAL MURDER FEST. It's possible I just missed something though.

The best thing about this film is that it really uses its premise to full effect leaving no conceptual stone unturned. It not just shows you what life would be like during the purge in the moment, but also somewhat surprisingly explores the socioeconomic and class elements of the concept, reflecting on our own world as it does this. Overall the film has a surprisingly radical outlook for a Hollywood production although that is not to say it is radical by a general standard.

Hm. I'm not 100% on board. In fact, if anything I feel like I wish it could've used the premise a bit more. There's hints of interesting stuff here (the banker strung up, crazy lady on the roof, etc) but that stuff (which I liked!) takes a back seat to the action for most of the film. The strength of the film, to me, was definitely the premise which felt just a little less special this being a sequel and all. I like that it showed us a bit more of what was going on, but I also found it to be sort of a rambling mess.

Although I do love how positive you are haha. Fairly high praise for a 26/30 films!

Biggest scare: This is not a scary film, but the scen indoors with the family where a domestic argument spirals out of control into murder and a firefight is pretty effectively disturbing.

I know it seems like no one else is going to agree but the scariest part for me was the home invasion part in this "not a home invasion" sequel to the home invasion original. When the creepy guy breaks in and they realize they left the gun on the table.

Side point: The purge in itself as a concept is political by its very nature. That's unavoidable. But holy shit do the writers not understand subtlety or subtext or even the point they're trying to make

This is, 100%, my biggest issue as well. It almost felt like a freshman level creative writing prompt done by someone who didn't fully understand the assignment and was probably going to fail the class anyway.

gains nothing by withholding information about Grillos motivations. Just tell us
what he wants to do for the purge, it would both make it easier to invest in him as a
character and make his choices to help others while hes running out of time more
dramatically interesting.

That was another odd choice. It goes just beyond that, for me, because that little snippet inside his apartment where they pan over to the hilariously on the nose "crazy person newspaper clipping board" was enough for me to figure out exactly what was going on (if I remember correctly, there is a headline that almost spells it out for you word for word). But then he's strangely cagey about it for the next three quarters of the movie to the point I wasn't sure if I was supposed to know what I was supposed to know.

Also I did not know until this very moment that Michael Bay produced both Purge and Purge Anarchy and suddenly things make so much more sense.