Last night, I finally got around to watching “The Purge”, the latest horror film starring Ethan Hawke. The reviews of this film were mixed but did people watch the same film I did? I thought the film was really good and didn’t find anything wrong with it.

The story takes place in the 2022 in which the United States has become a nation “reborn”. The new United States now has a New Founding Fathers of America and because of it… crime and unemployment is very low because the new government started a yearly thing called, ‘The Purge”. “The Purge” is a yearly 12 hour period where murder would be legalized during those 12 hours. During those 12 hours, law enforcement and emergency services are shut down. “The Purge” happens once a year. James Sanding is a rich man who lives in Los Angeles with his family and he got rich selling home security systems. During “The Purge”, James tries his best to protect his family from a group of masked people and a man known as the Polite Leader (pictured above).

Many are saying that the script to this film was pretty bad and the characters were bad as well. I’m like, really? I thought the script and the characters were fine to me. It’s just a movie, that’s all it is. I actually thought the story was pretty realistic and something like this could happen in real life. What would America be like if there was a time where murder would be completely legalized for a day? I thought the film was kind of creepy and had me at the edge of my seat.

I thought Ethan was good in this movie like he always is good. I really liked Rhys Wakefield playing the Polite Leader too… he was a badguy you wanted to hate. I thought the movie ended pretty good too. Nothing wrong with the film at all. I refuse to get into details about the plot ’cause I don’t wanna give too many spoilers.

You see, when I watch movies… I don’t go by other peoples opinions. I go by my own opinion alone. I’ll like a film whether everyone hates it or not. I won’t hate a film ’cause Roger Ebert or other movie fans hated it. I don’t follow popular opinion.

I thought “The Purge” was one of the best films of 2013 and I really mean that too. I would probably add the BluRay of this film to my collection pretty soon. I’m already looking forward to seeing what they’re gonna do with the sequel too. “The Purge” is mysterious for now but we’ll know more information on how the new United States started the yearly “Purge” in the later sequels.

I respect this film ’cause they did something different and challenging. Something original for once. This is a nice idea they’re doing.

Kev