445. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

November 28, 2014

I don't know why I watch these movies. The first Purge movie was awful and this one was just as terrible. Unfathomably stupid, 'The Purge: Anarchy' takes dumb to a new level. To begin with, if you're unfamiliar with the Purge movies, in the near future the Government has set aside 12 hours of one day a year where all crime is legal. Supposedly this gets rid of almost all other crime for the rest of the year. In the first film, a wealthy family's home gets invaded by college kids in plastic masks. The sequel takes place mostly outside during the annual purge. It follows the journey of a handful of people who cross paths by accident. One couple has their car break down while they're driving away and a mom and her daughter get pulled out of their building by people in riot gear. Another man is out on his own, with vengeance on his mind. The vengeance man sees the mom and daughter putting up a fight as the riot gear people try to load them on a truck. On the truck is a man who goes by the name Big Daddy. Vengeance man rescues mom and daughter and while the couple jump in his car to escape a gang of idiots in more masks, the leader of which has a porcelain mask with the word GOD scribbled on the forehead. GOD does a lot of long sideways glances and waves at people in an attempt to appear menacing. At this point, the movie is pretty horrendous, but I press on thinking it can't get any worse. It does. We learn that the riot gear people are government agents who capture people and sell them to purge auctions. Later on in the movie the protagonists get caught and we see a bunch of rich people bid large amounts of money to be able to hunt and kill the captives in a small arena after they finish their ritualistic prayers to the new founding fathers who created the purge. The pretentious rich people are just so unbelievably ridiculous and far-fetched that by this point I was trying not to pay attention because I felt myself actually getting dumber. I still finished it. Vengeance man found a way to get his vengeance, but was too good a person to do it and walked away, only to be tracked down by Big Daddy who was still mad that vengeance man had rescued mom and daughter and taken away his purge kills. Mom and daughter save vengeance man and the purge ends and they take him to the hospital and this stupid movie can finally end.