Barnes is promoted to head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to ban the annual traditional Purge
26 January 1985, Onslow County, North Carolina, USA
4 March 1957, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
14 March 1939, Hempstead, Long Island, New York, USA
April 18, 2017
The problem with this film is that it's halfway between the action and a heavy reflection that, despite the solemnity, is still innocent. [Full review in Spanish]July 01, 2016
The Purge: Election Year represents writer/director James DeMonaco's attempt to squeeze one more movie out of a premise that has run dry.July 01, 2016
The writer/director has a lot to say, but this neo-grindhouse framework isn't built for complexity. Still, the film is just bonkers enough to work.July 06, 2016
Like most "exploitation movies," the "Purge" franchise is deeply moralistic at heart.July 01, 2016
It would be one thing to bait the viewer's blood lust and then punish them for it. But the films command an audience that's enchanted by its displays of blood-drenched yahoos in kooky masks satisfying their barely repressed psychopathy.December 05, 2016
The most interesting of the Purge movies to date, though Anarchy's social satire was far less muddled.October 26, 2016
While I may question the logic from time to time in writer-director James DeMonaco's latest film, I found the overall story surprisingly clear, balanced and even symmetrical.December 14, 2016
The Purge: Election Year definitely aims higher than its predecessors but ultimately becomes too weighed down by its nonsensical premise and over-enthusiastic political commentary to be anything close to insightful or scary.December 31, 2016
The clichés weigh things down as it becomes a rescue mission movie in the final act.July 01, 2016
The action is largely routine and the dialogue rarely more than functional, but DeMonaco, marshalling the franchise's best production values yet, shrewdly taps into the angry zeitgeist.July 01, 2016
Mostly it's more of the same from this stalled series. It's time someone purges "The Purge."