{"id":9830,"date":"2024-12-10T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2024-12-10T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:56:02","slug":"the-purge-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/12\/10\/the-purge-anarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purge: Anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Purge: Anarchy<\/strong>\u00a0 (2014)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 103 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong disturbing violence, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: James DeMonaco\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: James DeMonaco\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Nathan Whitehead\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jacques Jouffret\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Release date: July 18, 2014 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Zoe Soul, Michael K. Williams, Justina Muchado, John Beasley, Jack Conley, Noel Gugliemi, Castulo Guerra, Edwin Hodge, Keith Stanfield, Roberta Valderrama, Brandon Keener, Chad Morgan, Niko Nicotera.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $72M (US)\/$111.9M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Last year\u2019s effectively disturbing thriller The Purge was a claustrophobic piece in which a well-to-do family defends themselves against masked intruders taking part in an annual, government-sanctioned 12-hour period of murder and mayhem. In the not-too-distant future, EVERYTHING (including murder) is legal for one night. Emergency services are suspended and it\u2019s basically every man for himself. The movie went on to do very well at the box office, a sure sign that writer-director James DeMonaco would deliver a sequel.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019m pleased to report that The Purge: Anarchy<\/strong> is neither a knock-off nor a rehash of the first movie. Instead, the story is spread across a much wider canvas, namely the city of Los Angeles. Also, we finally learn the real reason behind the yearly Purge- population control. Things like poverty and unemployment are almost non-existent in 2023 thanks to the Purge. The poor, the sick, the disenfranchised and the homeless are the prey and the wealthy 1% are the predators. As one sick bastard explains, it\u2019s the best way of maintaining the status quo in the US under the New Founding Fathers. And you thought Obama was destroying the country?<\/p>\n

\u00a0As the clock ticks down to 7pm on March 21, citizens rush home to barricade themselves inside until 7am the next morning. Not everybody makes it. Shane (Gilford, Devil\u2019s Due) and Liz (Sanchez, A Perfect Getaway) break down while driving to her sister\u2019s house. Their domestic problems suddenly don\u2019t seem to matter after they spot of group of masked killers on motorcycles and skateboards coming after them. A mother (Ejogo, Sparkle) and daughter (Soul, Prisoners) also find themselves on the street after uniformed thugs with automatic weapons invade their building in the projects. The only one who wants to be out there is a nameless vigilante (Grillo, Homefront) looking to avenge the death of a loved one. He finds himself the sole protector of the others after the cruel hands of fate bring them together. It\u2019s the super-rich who want to wipe out these folks, but they don\u2019t want to get their hands dirty, so they have mercenaries rounding them up and delivering them. It all culminates in a darker, less-civilized version of the Hunger Games.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It doesn\u2019t happen very often, but I enjoyed this sequel more than the original. The Purge: Anarchy<\/strong> kept me riveted from start to finish. It\u2019s dark, violent, disturbing and the complete antithesis of the usual fare that plays at multiplexes during the dog days of summer. It\u2019s an intelligent movie that takes its goofy premise a bit too seriously at times. It\u2019s also one of the more entertaining thrillers I\u2019ve seen in a while. Danger lurks around every dark corner of the city. Crazed snipers shoot from rooftops and windows. Masked killers roam the near-empty streets. A bus rolls the down the street engulfed in flames. The scared citizens run for cover. It all makes for nail-biting entertainment. And I haven\u2019t even mentioned the underground movement looking to abolish the Purge once and for all. All I\u2019ll say is that DeMonaco lays the groundwork for a third Purge movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Grillo does an excellent job as the anti-hero who leads the stranded group to what\u2019s supposed to be a safe place. He\u2019s kind of like the Man with No Name character from the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns of the 60s. The Purge: Anarchy<\/strong> works a lot better than it should thanks to the opening up of the story. What would be the point of setting it in a different home with a different family? DeMonaco wisely avoids the \u201cbeen-there\/done-that\u201d pitfall that many sequels fall victim to. I\u2019m actually surprised that a major studio distributed the Purge movies. They seem more like smaller independent films with limited appeal. Typically, audiences don\u2019t go for bleak films like The Rover or The Purge: Anarchy<\/strong>. Then again, the two Hunger Games movies made a ton of money. I\u2019ll be interested to see how this new Purge movie performs at the box office. Will audiences go for it or flock to Sex Tape? Stay tuned and find out.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Purge: Anarchy\u00a0 (2014)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universal\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 103 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong disturbing violence, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: James DeMonaco\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: James DeMonaco\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Nathan Whitehead\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jacques Jouffret\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Release date: July 18, 2014 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Zoe Soul, Michael K. Williams, Justina Muchado, John Beasley, Jack Conley, Noel Gugliemi, Castulo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/The-Purge-Anarchy-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10088,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/10088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}