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The Worst Film Ever

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a terrible movie that takes a funhouse mirror to the worst aspects of society.There isn't much redeeming about this movie but there are some good but intentionally over the top performances.

Long story short, this sequel wasn't needed. It is blank, it is forced, it is empty, it is nothing new and interesting, it is just a destruction of The Purge idea. This movie is just repeating the concept with some politics involved in the plot and does not deliver in any sort of way. The persons who purge are some wacky stupid teenagers that act and look funny, without a reason to purge, their guns are flashy, their masks are flashy and their hairstyles unic. The movie just loses it's sense and awesomeness that the second sequel managed to develope.

Like most Hollywood movies, The Purge: Hillary's Election Year makes no attempt to hide it's political leanings: Good "minorities", good White women, and a few token good White men vs the racist, horrible, racist, evil, racist, mean, racist White men.Towards the beginning of the movie, the idea of "murder tourists" (foreigners who travel to the U.S. to partake in the Purge) intrigued me. When introduced, the movie makes a point of showcasing murder tourists from South Africa. I didn't really think about it at the time, but later in the film, we find out why they were so specifically identified as South African (SPOILER ALERT!-its because they're bad, evil racism-fuled racists! Although when the South Africans are introduced early in the movie, they seem to have at least one Black man in their party)Other than the "murder tourists", the film follows standard issue Hollywood formula: Hillary is poised to defeat Donald and end the Purge, which her saintly minority followers all totally grok. Meanwhile, Donald's evil skinhead KKK Nazi followers don't want the Purge to end, so they haphazardly try to kill Hillary. They fail and Hillary is now in a position to overthrow evil Donald's regime. Or is she?!?!?

The film starts out with 3 subplots. There is an election.Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) is running on the platform to eliminate the purge. Two people are protecting their store and an underground group called the Triage is helping injured people. As in the second feature, the three subplots come together as expected.In this installment the battle between the haves and have-nots symbolized with The Purge series has culminated into political parties with Republicans being represented as old white men for the Purge and Democrats lead by a woman candidate being against it. (Sorry GOP, I didn't script the film.) I think they killed the series, but left open a door.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.