Storyline

In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It's one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.

Plot Keywords

violence, mother daughter relationship, survival, knife, class differences, killing spree, one night, suspense, child in peril, tied to a chair, threat, neighbor neighbor relationship, husband wife relationship, mansion, upper class, home invasion, surprise ending, written by director, self defense, deception

Short Review

Writer-director James DeMonaco's The Purge fritters away its promise in lurid, frenzied violence.

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