TheLittleSongbird Am another person who didn't care at all for 'The Purge' from 2013. It wasn't completely unwatchable with a couple of reasonable performances and decent production values but was so tension and suspense-free and full of irritating characters, illogical character behaviours, a dull pace, a cheesy script and tired clichés.Had seen and heard numerous times people saying that 'The Purge: Anarchy' was a much better film. Will admit that due to disliking 'The Purge' so much, part of me was very unsure as to whether to watch 'The Purge: Anarchy' and very nearly didn't watch it. To be fair though, decided to watch it and found it not to be a waste of time at all, it is a second film that stands well on its own and doesn't try to be more of the same and instead be different from the predecessor. Am in complete agreement with those saying that this is the far superior film, while thinking that it was still flawed and not too great.'The Purge: Anarchy' has a lot of good things. The story execution is much better this time round, it's more eventful, is tighter paced, is intriguing and has some creepy atmosphere and suspense. The acting is also better, with a formidable Frank Grillo leading the cast with aplomb.Less irritating characters here too, generally the characters are easier to relate to and are not as shallow, their behaviour also makes more sense and induces less face palms. There are unsettling moments here, some fun ones and some intriguing ones. It's assuredly directed and the slick and gritty visual look remains, its effort to be larger in scale in terms of ideas and narrative and have more going on is laudable.However, 'The Purge: Anarchy' is still heavily flawed. The dialogue is still enough to make one cringe and just sounds so fatigued, stilted and without any imagination. The social commentary and rich vs poor aspects are dealt with in a heavy-handed way and the effects are shoddy and do look fake.Character development is very flimsy and 'The Purge: Anarchy' still has a few characters that frustrate (especially the annoying Cali, with Zoe Soul giving the only "bad" performance), not much imaginative or surprising and the clichés every bit as tired. There are some parts that feel like they're stretched out too far, the ending doesn't finish the film with a bang as much as one would hope.Reading those criticisms, one would think that 'The Purge: Anarchy' is a bad film. Unlike 'The Purge', it is not. It's problematic and is not a great film, but overall it's decent enough and has a good deal in its favour with things that were bad previously corrected. 6/10 Bethany Cox

lukem-52760 The Purge anarchy is the best of the purge movies so far it's an exciting edge of the seat Thriller.I won't talk about the plot or story as tons of others already have.FRANK GRILLO is Fantastic as the lone vigilante Hero in this film & his performance is Excellent he's a tough not very talkative old school style Hero like a Charles Bronson in Death Wish or a Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry or a Kurt Russell in Escape from New York,he's made in that great mould & this works as an action Thriller for Grillo like those movies did for them.In this urban Purge world it's scary & you need someone like Grillo to follow on the journey through this crazy new America & he's perfectly cast & you see what a very intense actor he is & what a fantastic Action Hero he can & should be!!! The movie is so atmospheric & exciting & full of danger especially when Grillo has to help a small group of survivor's through the dangerous streets of Los Angeles & the cinematography is stunning,the look if the streets & the colours look beautiful lots of almost neon green it looks fantastic & like i said having the excellent Grillo as the hero is perfect casting he really is so cool like a modern Mad Max or The Punisher he's great

Coventry With "The Purge" in 2013, writer/director James DeMonaco introduced one of the most original and disturbingly realistic premises for a dystopian Sci-Fi/thriller flick in many years. However, for some inexplicable reason, DeMonaco took all the great potential and wasted it on making yet another mundane and run-of-the-mill slasher/vigilante thriller. Literally everyone could see that the concept of "The Purge" (all types of crime are legalized during a 12-hour period across the USA in a not-so-distant future) offers endless possibilities, and apparently DeMonaco realized it too in the meantime, since the first numberless sequel is better, more disturbing and a lot more varied in terms of purging types & participants. Whereas in the first film, only one wealthy family got targeted by a violent gang in their heavily secured house, there are various storylines in "Anarchy". Here we see how the purge is used as an excuse to extract personal vengeance, how rich families literally buy poor people to feast their murder lusts upon, how family feuds are resolved, how the government organizes a secretive sort of mass-cleansing and how street gangs (with awesome masks) chase and round up victims for pretentious snobs. That last storyline reminded me of one of the oldest cult premises in cinema history, and a personal favorite classic of mine, namely "The Most Dangerous Game". There's still a lot of efficient satire and social criticism in DeMonaco's script, notably regarding America's culture of violence and the pro-weapon attitude. Contrary to most horror films and thrillers nowadays, "The Purge: Anarchy" has a cast full of amiable and realistic characters, and the performances (Frank Grillo, Zoë Soul, Kiele Sanchez...) are more than adequate.

TonyMontana96 (Originally seen a few weeks ago) Another film that you would like to rate zero and not mention ever again, but there is no such rating available, so I'll simply state how inhumane and awful this piece of junk really is. A lot of people get killed for no reason, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and yet some stayed indoors and got slaughtered anyway, so the rules were already broken and the government within the film were never going to do anything about it; due to rich people, possibly politicians as well being in on there sadistic methods, and what really did it was a scene where a bunch of rich, overprivelaged people bid on which kidnapped human being they hunt and slaughter within one room, and that is sickening, this thing is empty, trash, the action scenes are terrible, the character's are forgettable and clichés and the entire film is dreadful, something that would without a doubt make the worst film's I have ever seen list. 0/10