This series was one of the more interesting ones. The early films aped John Carpenter's classics like Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from NY, but as time as gone on the emphasis on horror has lessened into the moves into gory action films has progressed. The side order of anti-right politics is welcome, but is it Hollywood's way of reaching right-wing movie fans and trying to educate them through these films? High hopes? But anybody coming through the cinema doors to see Purge films aren't there from the political insight/satire, they want thrill kills and scares.... By the fifth film and a TV series, it's a case of rinse repeat with another angle to hang the template on. This entry revolves around a new set of 'characters' who mainly live on a ranch near El Paso, TX and how they survive when the Purge continues after the legal 12 hour period is over. From there it's just a series of run, hide, shoot scenes without any thought or invention. The Mexican variation could have been used a bit more imaginatively, but by now the films are too straight-jacketed and established to think all that far beyond its own garden.
Out of the existing film this ranks as the fourth out of five for quality. Only the First Purge was worse than this.
3 out of 10
Latest installment is in Texas. The purge doesn't end noon the next day as usual. Right wing (Trumpists) gangs decide to take on the whole of America. Fleeing nice white people and heroic Mexican hispanics team up and are joined by a native American indian to escape over the border where Mexican government has offered sanctuary!! Ha, ha very funny and ridiculous of course.
Nice Americans, liberals etc are not safe in their own country. Are you Americans sorry for what you did to the natives? Are you sympathetic to illegal immigrants? Are you a pinko Liberal? Well this is for you. I would have thought the biggest fans of this daft franchise would be the right wing loony brigade anyway so are the movie makers being a bit hypocrital? Well anything to make a buck, mind you they could lose some of their usual audience!