It seems that, in what has to be the unlikeliest of scenarios, that this so-called Purge night actually works, giving the authorities 364 trouble-free days in every year. With the vast majority of people in employment, life is rosy, and the Sandin family enjoy the fruits of the success enjoyed by businessman father …show more content…
His wife is played by Lena Headley - Cersei in Game of Thones - and this family find out how terrible the night can be after the kids persuade dad to open the security system so that they can rescue a homeless man from a murderous gang.
On this terrifying night, there are no laws and people run amok killing each other, during this so-called twelve-hour purge. You cannot help but feel that this silly movie is a kind of dark hint at a kind of truly extreme population control, attempting to channel all of the seething violence in society into a half-day frenzy of blood-letting, where the poorer members of society tend to be those most targeted because they are least able to protect themselves.
Once the homeless man has been dragged inside their fortress home, the Sandins, who are obviously not poor people at all once again lock down their fortified home, but the man they saved is the hate-target of a particularly savage band of psychotic maniacs who are utterly determined to get him, whatever it takes. That is why this silly movie turns into a themed home break-in film, trying to offer individual character studies into the