"The Purge: Election Year" Is the Worst Movie of 2016
The Purge: Election Year (2016) It's been said that the worst thing a book can be is boring. Every word, every sentence, and every paragraph of a novel must serve some sort of purpose and never leave the reader bored. I believe that this theory applies to film as well, and unfortunately, The Purge: Election Year is mind-numbingly boring from start to finish. Despite the fact that it rarely lapses into scenes where nothing happens it's difficult to feel anything for any of the characters on screen or to care when the fourth action sequence rolls around. The novelty of the idea from the first film, which introduces the concept of one day where all crime is legal, has worn off by now and is instead muddled by an attempt at introducing politics to the Purge universe. Our hero is a politician who is determined to put an end to the purge after witnessing the murder of her family when she was young one purge night, for some reason the notion of a politician putting an end to a...