The Purge: Anarchy
Directed and written by James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo (Sergeant), Carmen Ejogo (Eva Sanchez), Zach Gilford (Shane), Kiele Sanchez (Liz), Zoe Soul (Cali), Justina Machado (Tanya), John Beasley (Papa Rico), Jack Conley (Big Daddy), Noel Gugliemi (Diego), Michael Kenneth Williams (Carmelo Johns).
The story opens with a group of employees, nervous, waiting to be dismissed by their boss. The group discuss on what to do on the evening of the purge. Afterwards the employees depart and go to their perspective places before commencement.
Eva (Carmen Ejogo) comes home to Cali (Zoe Soul) her teenage daughter, and father Rico (John Beasley). Cali is watching a video online of a man called Carmelo Jones (Michael K. Williams). A man with a very large plan, he rallies followers against the New Founding Fathers and their acts against people that are from poverty.
Rico (John Beasley) has written something for his daughter and Grandchild. He said in the letter that all their money problems will no longer be an issue, he is dying and after tonight, "You girls will be OK". He will be going to a home of a rich family, and they will enact a purge, and therefore in return they will supply money to Eva's account.
meanwhile somewhere in the city, a different man, is ready to purge. His rifle, guns, are all locked and loaded. His past has brought him to the revenge he is about to enact, pure rage, action that will give him some hope, for Sergeant (Frank Grillo) main dish will be served soon, commencement will begin, and his revenge will be clear. The man who killed his son, will be dead, and his son will be avenged.
After going to the market for somethings Shane (Zach Gilford) and Kiele Sanchez (Liz) walk to the car, but notice a group of thugs gallivanting about. The demeanor seems almost uplifting, because the purge will begin soon and they know violent actions will take place, but where it will take place is the unanswered question. One of the thugs, bumped into Shane (Zach Gilford) almost taking him down, but noticed a mask that has "God" written on it. A mockery, or just a key to to the violent acts of commencement. Later, after driving away from the market, they noticed a sardonic smile on one of the thugs, almost as they knew something will go wrong.
The car breaks down, not a coincidence but, a power steering problem, the line was cut which caused an issue with the car, commencement only 15 minutes away, things went from bad to worse. The group of thugs watch, not far from the broken down car. They wait, for the purge to begin. Shane and Liz run away from the hell that's about to break loose on them.
Back at the apartments Eva (Carmen Ejogo) and Cali (Zoe Soul) are hiding from the swat like team of fully armored men that killed Diego (Noel Gugliemi) who earlier was on the verge of purging himself. The team scanned the room, found the girls, dragged them out towards a semi-truck, the trailer open, automatically. A man wearing a cap, a full apron, next to a high powered chain gun. Big Daddy (Jack Conley) waits for his victims to mow down with his chain gun. Sergeant (Frank Grillo) not far away watches the event take fold. He hesitates, but resists. He takes down the swat team, and Big Daddy, saving the lives of Eva and Cali.
On the way back to his car, Sergeant tells the girls to get inside his car, fast. Big Daddy gets up, reaches for the chain gun, starts the deadly machine. The bullets smash into the side of Sergeant's car. The car spins, and takes off away from the danger. Looking into his rear-view mirror he notices to strangers inside the back seats of his car. Shane and Liz, they are running from the thugs, trying to survive the 12 hour ordeal.
The first thing i noticed about this film, Purge: Anarchy is the title, like all movie goers we notice the title is almost the draw to the film. We almost are accepting in movie titles, it's the plot before the plot. We know its a violent premiss. Anarchy, meaning hell breaking loose to the citizens of the state. Walking into this film, you have an idea on what to expect, especially a sequel. The acting is pretty good, not over the top, but good. don't have a problem here; we know the plot, and the characters have some direction, so what can happen to this type of film and its sequels.
film's like this have one direction, continue the plot with some explosive action, one direction that sometimes has no meaning. The Purge: Anarchy should be an example of a premiss that takes you to a different place. The plot's core is the same, but the characters are not weak, they are written well within the story, they hold up in this type of plot. The film's opening weekend tells us that the sequel did well, it opened up here in the US 29,816,675, gross world wide at 105,919,230. Gross by country 71,519,230. The original Purge opened up at 34,058.360 US and gross 83,623,650 world wide. Gross by country is about 64,423,650. The First film budget was 3,000,000 estimated, Anarchy about 9,000,000 estimated. That being said, the second Purge did much better, even with the cast from the first, Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, Chris Mulkey. Why? did the second film do better. A simple answer to that question; the plot focused on a larger scale, the purge was bigger and better in some ways. All hell breaks loose and you know it. The gun fire, to the screams heard across town. running from one place to another, the film moves. Even with Sergeant's secret revenge premiss leaves you at the edge of your seat.
The film is better than the first and a must see, that being said I'll dive right into the core. can this happen in reality, yes. The film could be looked at in a political form as well. Take the rich for example, in the film they pay big bucks to see folks killed before them. Money is transferred from one group to another, a modern day arena. Killed for pleasure, exposes the distastes of the rich. Can this be a true reality of our nation, will this be the modern hell we as a nation worked so hard against. maybe; it all depends on us. Fighting hard to keep what our forefathers had written, the document that was made for a nation to succeed no matter what the cost. The Constitution, the very thing that keeps this country together. As long as that document exists the purge will never happen. We the people must stand up for our rights and what our forefathers have created, hope, the right to live free.
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