BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

anselmdaniel This review contains spoilersThe Purge: Election Year is directed by James DeMonaco and stars Frank Grillo and Elizabeth Mitchell. The movie is set after The Purge: Anarchy and Leo Barnes the Sargent is now the head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, played by Elizabeth Mitchell. The senator wishes to end the purge and seeks election as President of the United States. The political party that created the purge, the new Founding Fathers hires a mercenary group to kill the senator.The plot and the writing in this third movie is still not improved. Much of the problems are still here and not even hand waved by the universe. There are even more plot contrivances. One of these is a shop owner whose purge insurance is cancelled in order to elevate the tension. This is not the only event and the movie is filled with these plot devices.The movie is improved in some ways. The tone is not as serious as The Purge: Anarchy. Besides the plot devices, the violence is more organic here with the mercenary groups having a clear motive to hurt the main characters. More of the political system and society is explained this movie. The main cast of Frank Grillo and Elizabeth Mitchell are great here. The two leads have good chemistry. Even though the leads relation is basic, it does feel that the two characters care for one another. The villains seem more exaggerated in their silliness here. This lends to the less serious tone in the movie. The Purge: Election Year is recommended. It does better than its previous entry, but not greatly improve upon it. The action has more context on it now, and makes the movie better overall.This being the third movie in The Purge trilogy, the trilogy as a whole is inconsistent. The tone of the movies are wild with each one oscillating in its logic. The first movie sets up the world but its actually more elaborated in this movie. Overall the trilogy's concept is good, but the execution has been lackluster. The first movie is good for its simplicity. The second movie tried to expand on its setting but did not improve the writing. The third movie is a mix of the first two with a less serious tone.

kidmoe Like most Hollywood movies, The Purge: Hillary's Election Year makes no attempt to hide it's political leanings: Good "minorities", good White women, and a few token good White men vs the racist, horrible, racist, evil, racist, mean, racist White men.Towards the beginning of the movie, the idea of "murder tourists" (foreigners who travel to the U.S. to partake in the Purge) intrigued me. When introduced, the movie makes a point of showcasing murder tourists from South Africa. I didn't really think about it at the time, but later in the film, we find out why they were so specifically identified as South African (SPOILER ALERT!-its because they're bad, evil racism-fuled racists! Although when the South Africans are introduced early in the movie, they seem to have at least one Black man in their party)Other than the "murder tourists", the film follows standard issue Hollywood formula: Hillary is poised to defeat Donald and end the Purge, which her saintly minority followers all totally grok. Meanwhile, Donald's evil skinhead KKK Nazi followers don't want the Purge to end, so they haphazardly try to kill Hillary. They fail and Hillary is now in a position to overthrow evil Donald's regime. Or is she?!?!?

truthdefenderdep The entire movie is based on bs perceived societal beliefs. Why is it OK for the female to kill the teenager with he ak47, but the shop owner(who would be justified any day of the year, let alone purge night, to defend his store from a armed teenager.)And the black guy team members die at the end!? REALLY!!!!! This isn't the 1960's!!!!This movie is total bs simpleminded pablum.

Amthermandes This should be a disappointment for most fans of the previous two Purge installments, but should not necessarily be avoided.As we watch the characters, familiar and unfamiliar, survive the night, you'll see the expected that all Purge-ians look forward to: violence, death, tension, crazies, drama, scares, and developments in the Purge story. The quality of each however is not all the same. The story and new perspectives is fun, and it makes sense there would be a group and a few individuals fighting against the Purge, and that those running the show of the Purge do not appreciate their efforts. So tensions rise, violence ensues, and morals are tested as usual. It all falls so short of the other two movies though.The biggest issue I had was that the movie tried WAY too hard. The group of rebellious adolescents were extra rebellious, the crazies were obnoxiously crazy, the evil nature of the politicians and religious leaders are beyond the threshold of plausible evilness, the token black role was annoyingly racist, in fact most of the characters and acting was annoying and preachy. Worth viewing once. Especially for Purge fans. That's about it.Hope they up their game for future sequels/prequels.