{"id":504,"date":"2014-07-23T00:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2024-04-05T18:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:57:24","slug":"the-purge-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"The Purge-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Purge-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director James DeMonaco<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #128<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed July 23, 2014<\/p>\n

Grade: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

On paper, the premise of the film The Purge (2013) is very intriguing. It immediately caught my attention and I was compelled to see it.<\/p>\n

The government, fed up with the overwhelming crime and prison overcrowding, decides to initiate a once-a-year purge, where anything goes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like Christmas for the criminals and the insane.<\/p>\n

All emergency and police will shut down on this night and citizens are left to their own devices as a way to purge the violent and aggressive instincts from human systems.<\/p>\n

An affluent family, led by a security systems genius (Ethan Hawke), nestles in their lavish home.<\/p>\n

Of course, events go awry and chaos ensues.<\/p>\n

The film contains suspense, thrills, frights, and a bit of humor, containing questions of class distinction and raises societal questions- Why are the wealthy better off than the poor? Do they deserve to be?<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the setting of the wealthy, gated Los Angeles community and the eerily Stepford wife-like atmosphere of the neighborhood where housewives delivered casseroles and other dishes to each other for the big night.<\/p>\n

Throughout this sunny environment, the viewer could sense a too-good-to-be-true cheerfulness and the darkness to follow anticipated as sunset emerged.<\/p>\n

I found this film to be unpredictable and the edge of your seat and the film delved into a home invasion thriller, which was effective.<\/p>\n

I could not predict what might happen next and that is incredibly entertaining.<\/p>\n

I am unsure if some of the humor in the film was intentional or not- some of the kills were over the top and contained one-liners, but The Purge (2013) is a crisp, fun, summer popcorn horror film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Purge-2013 Director James DeMonaco Starring Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey Scott’s Review #128 Reviewed July 23, 2014 Grade: A- On paper, the premise of the film The Purge (2013) is very intriguing. It immediately caught my attention and I was compelled to see it. The government, fed up with the overwhelming crime and prison overcrowding, … Continue reading The Purge-2013<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[4035,4034,4036],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-horror-films","tag-ethan-hawke","tag-james-demonaco","tag-lena-headey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20084,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/20084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}