The Purge: Anarchy
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| Directed by | James DeMonaco |
| Produced by | Jason Blum Michael Bay Andrew Form Brad Fuller Sebastien Lemercier |
| Written by | James DeMonaco |
| Starring | Frank Grillo Carmen Ejogo Zach Gilford Kiele Sanchez Michael K. Williams |
| Music by | Nathan Whitehead |
| Cinematography | Jacques Jouffret |
| Edited by | Todd E. Miller Vince Filippone |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
| 103 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9 million[2] |
| Box office | $111.9 million[2] |
The Purge: Anarchy is a 2014 American social science fiction action horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco. The sequel to the 2013 film The Purge, it stars Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Zoë Soul and Michael K. Williams while Edwin Hodge is the only one to reprise his role from the first film. It was released worldwide on July 18, 2014.[3] It is the second installment in DeMonaco's Purge film series.
The film was met with generally mixed reviews, with most critics agreeing the film was an improvement over the original, and grossed over $111 million. The movie is notable for its dramatic change over the original: while the first film was set entirely in one house, this film is set in the Los Angeles area to give the notion of what usually happens during the Purge. A third film in the series,The Purge: Election Year, is set to be released on July 1, 2016.
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[hide]About The Purge event[edit]
In the early 2010s, "The New Founding Fathers of America" have established a new totalitarian government and a police state, following economic collapse. Using the 28th amendment of the U.S Constitution, the government has established one night a year - called "The Purge", which occurs on March 21 to 22, in which all crime is legal and all police, fire, and medical emergency services remain unavailable for 12 hours from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. the next day. The only rules are that no government officials with authorization levels of 10 and higher are to be disturbed and all weapons above Class 4 (explosive devices such as grenades, rocket launchers, bazookas, etc.) are forbidden. Anyone who violates the rules of the Purge would be publicly executed by hanging. The purge has resulted in crime and unemployment rates plummeting to 1% and a strong economy. Although it is thought to be used as an act of catharsis for the U.S. populace, in reality, it is used as a method of artificial population control as the unemployed poor in slum neighborhoods are usually the main targets.
Plot[edit]
In March 21, 2023, the media credits the Purge for low unemployment and poverty levels across the country. Hours before the annual Purge begins, people either prepare to commit violence or barricade themselves indoors. Meanwhile, an anti-Purge resistance group intermittently hacks into TV programs to broadcast messages challenging the system, stating that the Purge does not cleanse aggression, but rather eliminates the poor.
In Los Angeles, a waitress named Eva Sanchez (Carmen Ejogo) rushes home to her daughter Cali (Zoë Soul) and her terminally ill father. As they prepare to lock down for the evening, Eva's father slips out and into a waiting limo. A note left behind explains that he has sold himself as a Purge offering for $100,000 to be paid to Eva following the Purge.
Married couple Shane (Zach Gilford) and Liz (Kiele Sanchez) are driving to Shane's sister to wait out the Purge. Their car dies just as the Purge commences. A gang that cut their fuel line when they stopped at a market appears, forcing Shane and Liz to flee on foot. Elsewhere, an unnamed off-duty police Sergeant (Frank Grillo) tells his ex-wife that he must Purge to avenge the death of his son, and goes out into the streets heavily armed.
Moments after the Purge commences, a truck pulls up at the apartment house and disgorge heavily armed paramilitary men into the neighborhood. The apartment building's superintendent, who felt rejected by Eva in the past, bursts in with a shotgun intending to rape and kill them both. The paramilitary fighters enter the house, kill him with multiple gunshots, and drag Eva and Cali out into the street to be taken to Big Daddy (Jack Conley) for his own personal purge. The Sergeant drives by and kills the paramilitary, wounds Big Daddy and rescues Eva and Cali. Returning to his car, Sergeant finds Shane and Liz hiding in the back. The Sergeant is forced to take them when Big Daddy begins firing aminigun at Sergeant's car. When the heavily damaged car breaks down a few blocks later, Eva promises him the car of her co-worker Tanya (Justina Machado) if the Sergeant takes them to her apartment.
As the five survive intense street fighting, they notice a man in a suit tied to a wall outside with a knife in his stomach, implying that many wealthy Purgers and paramilitary men are being murdered by Anti-Purge resistance fighters. After reaching Tanya's apartment, Eva admits that there is no car. Tanya's sister Lorraine (Roberta Valderrama) suddenly shoots Tanya for sleeping with Lorraine's husband. As the group flees, Big Daddy, who has tracked them through traffic cameras, arrives with more armed guards. The groups evades Big Daddy only to be captured by the gang that was pursuing Liz and Shane.
The gang is paid to deliver victims to a death theater where wealthy, upper-class Purgers bid to hunt and kill them for sport in a chamber. Shane, Eva, Cali, Liz, and the Sergeant fight back, killing and driving off the Purgers. The security forces swarm the arena, killing Shane. Anti-Purge resistance fighters storm the compound to rescue the group and eliminate the Purgers including the upper class ones. Liz chooses to fight with the resistance group to avenge Shane, while the Sergeant threatens a wealthy Purger and hijacks her Cadillac SUV, and drives off with Eva and Cali.
The Sergeant drives to a suburban neighborhood. He explains that a year earlier, Warren Grass (Brandon Keener), killed the Sergeant's son while drunk driving, getting off with light charges due to a technicality. Sergeant attacks Grass and his wife in their bedroom, but he forgives Grass and spares his life. Leaving the house, the Sergeant is shot and wounded by Big Daddy, who says the New Founding Fathers believe the Purge eliminates too few of lower class. They have secretly dispatched death squads to increase the body count. He states the unwritten rule: do not save people. As Big Daddy is about to kill Sergeant, Grass appears and shoots and kills Big Daddy. Eva, Cali, and Grass have a standoff with Big Daddy's death squad when the siren blares, ending the 12-hour Purge and forcing the death squad to leave the scene. Grass, Eva, and Cali rush the Sergeant to the hospital as emergency services begin cleaning up after the Annual Purge.
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