As someone that has recently been getting into screenwriting as a career, I can say that this movie just fails on its premise and set up alone. You're telling me that on a night where crime is legal for 12 hours the main characters aren't at least scared enough to sit in the same room? I mean seriously? And what happens if the purge siren goes off and people keep killing for 30 minutes after? Who would know? The main character and in fact all characters except for the short-lived villain are all bland, 1 dimensional and offer little for the audience to dig their teeth into. I expected at least a gory action movie but there isn't even really a full proper fight scene until about an hour and 5 minutes into the movie. The tension and suspense don't work in the first hour and all of the foreshadowings are so obvious they might as well just tell you.
Review of The Purge
