I Was Purged Out of Eleven Dollars

Hello Friends,

Alright to kick things off about this film, lets give some background shall we?

In this "utopian" America, crime is at an all time low,unemployment is like 2% and everyone is happy. However, one night a year for twelve hours, all emergency systems shut down and all crime is legal. So naturally, chaos ensues and people do whatever the hell they want. James and Mary Sandin live with their two children, Charlie and Zoey, in a nice gated community where James sell his security systems to his neighbors.I'm not going to give you all the low down on these folks because that would take an entire post on its own.

This movie was a preachy, uncomplicated, and an over-stuffed waste of time. Not only did the film showcase the upper class as McMansion owning, gun-loving self obsessed yuppies, but the writers portrayed it in a "Real Housewives" way with catty neighbors and the awkward father doesn't approve of my boyfriend cliche. This slow moving film had so much potential, it actually makes me sick. The writers shoved so much political messaging down your throat that it took away from the movie allegedly scary plot. The fact that unemployment is at an all time low of 2% yet the movie harps on the "homeless swine" that is "ruining" our country is ridiculous. To be honest, this film had an identity crisis, from borrowing the masked intruders from The Strangers to a fortress being broken into like in Panic Room. It was a mixture of The Hunger Games (futuristic dystopian America, using murder to set examples), The Strangers and Panic Room.

Ethan Hawke, who was the patriarch, cared too much about money and was a little to blase to be seen as a father who truly cared for his family's survival, meanwhile Lena Headey was reduced to a kicking and screaming mess, even as her children are being threatened all she can do is cry?! I would have been fighting for them all long as I could. But not to worry, the children were equally forgettable. With the moody teenage daughter with boy problems who doesn't listen to her dad, to the anxiety and conscience ridden son who started this whole mess. This was casting gone wrong for instance the daughter, played by Adelaide Kane, should stick to after school specials where she came from. Her overly pouty decision making skills were dull and unmotivated, why would you run from your family and try and hide on your own?!?! There are people trying to kill you! Speaking of which.....

The intruders.....Hipster, prep school yuppies. With the overly formal way of speaking to the stupid grin on his face, these killer lacked ambiguity. That's why The Strangers worked, as an audience we never found out why they decided really to kill them. These people had way too much of a back story about why they wanted this guy. Then you have the dumb neighbors who try and settle a vapid score with the family. I won't delve too much into this bit because on the off chance you want to waste eleven dollars and see this garbage can of a film, I'll save some things for you.

In short this film had too much going on and not enough actually happening. The only good thing I will say is I liked the music in the beginning because they used Clair De Lune. Finally the weird Twilight stigma attached to the song was removed. Other than that, I felt purged of my money and time.

Thanks for reading and I hope I saved you some money. Keep watching and get scared, not purged.