Directed By: James DeMonaco (The Purge) Starring: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Kiele Sanchez, Michae K. Williams
Rating: R for strong disturbing violence, and for language
Run Time: 1 hour, 43 minutes
Synopsis: Taking place one year after the first film, The Purge: Anarchy follows 5 strangers from different walks of life - a nameless soldier with an axe to grind (Grillo), a mother (Ejogo) and daughter who were nearly kidnapped by an army, and a bickering couple whose car broke down at an inopportune time - as they try to avoid a masked gang and various Purgers while trying to make it to safety in downtown L.A. on the night of the annual Purge.
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello dear readers! So we know we've been a little lax here lately as we still haven't published our review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but we're here with our review of the only film we saw this past weekend - The Purge: Anarchy.
It's the sequel to last year's The
Purge, which had an awesome concept and did very well at the box office,
but left a lot of its audience and critics cold. (I had a mixed reaction to it on my initial viewing, and frankly, this movie is kinda what I was asking for in my review of the first one.)
Sarah, we actually sat down and watched The Purge a
month or so ago which was your first time seeing it. So let's start this review
off by comparing what you thought of the first one and it's relatively
small-scale home invasion plot, and The Purge: Anarchy's much
wider-scale.
Sarah: First of all I want to say that these movies are silly.
The premise really makes absolutely no sense. But they are kind of fun, in an
extremely violent kind of way. The first one takes place solely in a Los
Angeles mansion. It's in tight quarters and gives it more of a horror movie
feel. There are elements of jumpiness and "who's around that
corner?!" The new one is all over the city of L.A. It has a much more
action movie feel to it, and I really liked that. It almost felt like it would
be a great premise for a haunted house. I could totally see this as a
walk-through at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights for sure.
