Review by Matt Finley
The best part of 2013’s THE PURGE was conversations you got to have after the movie. Who cleans up all the bodies? How does the number of Purge-related injuries at any single corporation affect their annual health insurance costs? And why would the government encourage such a high annual citizen death toll a mere three weeks prior to the income tax deadline? Most importantly, does Denny’s offer a special promotional Purge Slam?
It’s entertaining to see, then, that the new installment, THE PURGE: ANARCHY, helmed by returning writer/director James DeMonaco, seems to be based on similar (if slightly less esoteric) conversations held by the creative team in the wake of the first film’s complete inability to make good on its expansive, dystopic premise.
