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The Purge: Election Year

  • 20162016
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  • 1h 48m
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Brittany Mirabile and Roman Blat in The Purge: Election Year (2016)
It's been two years since Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets the poor and innocent. But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive until dawn ... or both be sacrificed for their sins against the state.
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Former Police Sergeant Barnes becomes head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.Former Police Sergeant Barnes becomes head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.Former Police Sergeant Barnes becomes head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.
IMDb RATING
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    • James DeMonaco
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    • Frank Grillo
    • Elizabeth Mitchell
    • Mykelti Williamson
    • James DeMonaco
    • James DeMonaco
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    • Frank Grillo
    • Elizabeth Mitchell
    • Mykelti Williamson
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    James DeMonaco, Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Roman Blat in The Purge: Election Year (2016)
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    Frank Grillo, Edwin Hodge, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Joseph Julian Soria, and Malcolm C. Murray in The Purge: Election Year (2016)
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    Frank Grillo
    Frank Grillo
    • Leo Barnes
    Elizabeth Mitchell
    Elizabeth Mitchell
    • Senator Charlie Roan
    Mykelti Williamson
    Mykelti Williamson
    • Joe Dixon
    Joseph Julian Soria
    Joseph Julian Soria
    • Marcos
    Betty Gabriel
    Betty Gabriel
    • Laney Rucker
    Terry Serpico
    Terry Serpico
    • Earl Danzinger
    Edwin Hodge
    Edwin Hodge
    • Dante Bishop
    Kyle Secor
    Kyle Secor
    • Minister Edwidge Owens
    Barry Nolan
    • Reporter #1
    Liza Colón-Zayas
    Liza Colón-Zayas
    • Dawn
    • (as Liza Colon-Zayas)
    Ethan Phillips
    Ethan Phillips
    • Chief Couper
    Adam Cantor
    Adam Cantor
    • Tall Eric Busmalis
    Christopher James Baker
    Christopher James Baker
    • Harmon James
    Jared Kemp
    Jared Kemp
    • Rondo
    Brittany Mirabile
    Brittany Mirabile
    • Schoolgirl #1 Freakbride
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    Raymond J. Barry
    Raymond J. Barry
    • Leader Caleb Warrens
    Naeem Duren
    Naeem Duren
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    Naheem Garcia
    Naheem Garcia
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      • James DeMonaco
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    • Trivia
      Originally, part 3 was intended to be a prequel, telling the story of the very first Purge. This idea was scrapped when Frank Grillo accepted James DeMonaco's offer to reprise the character of Sergeant Leo Barnes. The prequel idea was used for the next film in the series, The First Purge (2018).
    • Goofs
      (at around 51 mins) During the store break scene, candy girl is run over by a van and passes under the van. Her boots fly off her body with the laces dangling as they fly away from her body. When the driver steps out of the vehicle to shoot her, her boots are back on with the laces still tied.
    • Quotes

      Joe Dixon: Boy, there's a whole bunch of Negros comin' right this way. And we sitting up here like a bucket of motherfucking chicken.

    • Connections
      Featured in Conan: Aubrey Plaza/Frank Grillo/Pierce the Veil (2016)
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      20th Century Boy
      Written by Marc Bolan

      Performed by T. Rex

      Courtesy of Spirit Music Group

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    7/10
    Third Purge film worldbuilds, but has the same strengths and weaknesses of it's predecessors
    I have real mixed feelings about The Purge films. I've greatly enjoyed each one and am always excited for the next one to come out (I can't wait for the TV series!), but at the same time I've also always found each film a huge disappointment. This third installment does a better job than the previous films of delving more into the social-political context and ramifications of The Purge (an annual 12-hour period where the US government declares all crimes, even murder, legal). The story here is connected to the prior films in that the excellent Frank Grillo is now head of security for a US Senator fighting to end The Purge, who finds herself the night of The Purge being hunted down by The New Founding Fathers of America, the proponents of annual event. Another interesting story element is a former Purger, Betty Gabriel, who now drives a militarized Red Cross ambulance of sorts around the streets during The Purge to help innocent victims, who ends up helping Grillo and the senator. There's also Dwayne "Dante" Bishop returning again as a resistance moment leader fighting a Black Panther-like overthrow of The New Founding Fathers. Thematically, the second film did address issues of class and economics, which was lacking in the first film, including storylines about wealthy folks having poor folks pulled off the street to be murdered in the safety of their mansions, with poor folks starting to push back. Election Year continues those class warfare themes, but also brings in politics and how wealthy powerbroker and politicians collude to use The Purge for their own financial benefit, scheming to kill off wide swaths of the poor (really disappointed they didn't use The Dead Kennedys on the soundtrack). Also better than the previous films, writer/director James DeMonaco fills the screen with more memorable images of chaos in the streets. Some of the best are the Lincoln Memorial on fire and vandalized, a group of teen girls cruising around in masks, with guns, in a car covered in Christmas lights, and a then there's a enjoyably throwaway scene of an alleyway pit and the pendulum-like guillotine. DeMonaco also continues to worldbuild, besides introducing politicians debating merits of The Purge, there's "murder tourists" coming from other countries to the US to participate in the anarchy. The downside to this third installment is that it felt nowhere as lawless and frightening as the earlier installments. The first film was a more traditional of home invasion horror film, which lent itself to making The Purge something very scary on a small scale, but the two subsequent sequels felt more like action films, which somewhat muted the film's terrifying premiss. Also, these worldbulding elements, although interesting, felt more like throwaway ideas that were just tossed in and never fully explored. It's not bad that they were included in the the film and they certainly add to the world of The Purge, but again, they feel like missed opportunities. Overall, I was never bored by "The Purge: Election Year" and was in fact quite entertained, but I still feel like the film should have been scarier, with more horror elements, and although it did delve more into the subtext of the series original premiss, it felt like it was playing things too safe. Maybe the new TV series will be scarier and more incendiary in it's subtext.
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