Now I am a sucker for home invasion movies (and Disney movies) my favourite home invasion film has to be be an independent film called in their skin, here’s a link to tell you a little bit about it if your interested http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Their_Skin but that’s a review for another day, now the purge was intense I mean there were a few moments that had my heart pumping like crazy, so what is this film about well I shall tell you. 

So the Purge is about a family whose dad played by Ethan Hawke has his own company selling security systems to people, they live a normal happy life in their gated community they have a son and daughter, the son does nothing until midway through the film but for now we just see him controlling a very awesome remote control car with a very creepy baby whose eyes are cameras, the daughter has a boyfriend who is not meant to be there and keeps on saying that he needs to talk to the dad asap. Now we see various people preparing for the purge… now your probably wondering “but what is the Purge you have been mentioning” good question, the Purge was bought in by the U.S. Government as a way of realeasing the beast (basically your anger) and you can commit any crime including murder, now how does that fall in to our normal family, well as they gather round the tv for the commencement of the annual purge the emergency broadcast goes off thus sounding an alarm, meaning that the Purge has begun.

Now we see the family doing typical things around the house, until the daughters boyfriend comes a knocking and turns out has snuck into the house, so anyway he goes and talks to the dad but as he makes his way down he pulls out a gun ready to shoot the dad, oh dear, so what does Mr Hawke do well he shoots and kills the boyfriend (yeah and you thought your boyfriend/girlfriend parents were bad) so this guy shoots dead his daughters boyfriend, any in this commotion the brother pots something on the tv, he sees a man on the tv wounded and yelling for help, what does this kid do your wondering, well he opens the security doors letting the stranger who this family have never even met into their home (nice going kid)

Now the family get some masked strangers come to their door and ask for them to bring them the stranger, they decide not too (probably not the best decision to make) any way so the strangers get into their home start to kill the family, but the family fight back and kill all the masked strangers off. Now the neighbours come to visit and suddenly the neighbours hold the family hostage (and you thought your neighbours were bad) so the reason why they are holding them hostage is because they are jealous of their lifestyle and how the family live the dad has his own business and they live a happy life, that’s why they are attacking them, so the mother comes up with an idea no more Purging until 7 in the morning (that’s when the Purge ends) so they all sit round the table ignoring each other until the alarm sounds ending the Purge, and then everything turns to normal they say bye to each other the stranger who the kid let in goes home and they live happily ever after apart from fact that they have made a second Purge movie (yay sequel “sarcastic tone” so the credits roll and we learn that this was the most successful Purge ever and also plan for the next Purge.

So my final thoughts on the film, well I thought it was good I mean it was a little far fetched in a way that there would be no such thing as a Purge ever, but apart from that I thought it was really good probably not the best home invasion movie I have seen but nonetheless it was good let me know what you thought of the Purge down in the comments, I would love to hear your thoughts on this film until next time I review a film catch ya later.