The Purge: Election Year
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| German title | The Purge: Election Year | ||
| Original title | The Purge: Election Year | ||
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France , United States |
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| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2016 | ||
| length | 109 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | James DeMonaco | ||
| script | James DeMonaco | ||
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Michael Bay , Jason Blum , Andrew Form , Bradley Fuller , Sebastien Lemercier |
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| music | Nathan Whitehead | ||
| camera | Jacques Jouffret | ||
| cut | Todd E. Miller | ||
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The Purge: Election Year is a 2016 published dystopian thriller and horror movie by James DeMonaco with socially critical undertones. The film is the second sequel to The Purge from 2013 after The Purge: Anarchy ( 2014 ) . The prequel The First Purge followed in 2018 .
action
The plot of the film begins, like the first film in the series, in 2022 . The young Charlie Roan and her family are bloodied and tied by a masked man. The masked man then kills Charlie's entire family, but leaves Charlie alive.
Eighteen years later, in 2040 . Two days before the upcoming purge (from the English, means to clean up , to cleanse , here: the annual night in which crimes - especially murder - are legal and the purge is intended to cleanse society of the weak and poor as far as possible), Widespread riots and protests break out across Washington, DC . They were related to the "new Founding Fathers " who govern the country under the NFFA (New Founding Fathers of America) and the Purges have introduced. Charlie Roan is now a senator and has run for president of the United States . She is against the Purges and thus the New Founding Fathers, especially the NFFA leader Caleb Warrens, who is responsible for the Purges , a thorn in the side, as she is in the projections before their candidate Edwidge Owens. Warrens, along with the other Founding Fathers, plans to knock Roan out in the upcoming purge to win the election with their candidate. On March 20, one day before the purge , the founding fathers therefore revoke the rule that politicians from "level 10" are excluded from the purge .
Joe Dixon, a shopkeeper, learns that the insurance premiums used to protect his business rose so much during the purge that he can no longer afford them. So he plans to defend the store himself during the twelve lawless hours. At the same time, a group of South African tourists is being interviewed about the Purge at Washington, DC Airport . Like many others, they came especially to see the Purge in the United States. These tourists are called "murder tourists" by the press.
Meanwhile, Senator Roan was able to persuade her security officer, Sergeant Leo Barnes (one of the main characters from Purge: Anarchy ) to stay in her own house during the purge . She hopes to be able to secure more votes of the common people. Barnes extends the security precautions considerably in advance: barricades are erected around the entire property, and agents of the Secret Service and SWAT are positioned in front of the house. Three Secret Service agents are said to be on guard inside the house.
After the siren sounds and the purge begins, shopkeeper Joe, who is defending the shop with his assistant Marcos Dalie, is attacked by a group of teenagers. However, he can fend off this attack. Senator Roan and Leo Barnes are betrayed by agents stationed in the house. They secretly grant a group of neo-Nazis under the leadership of Earl Danzinger, who work together for the NFFA, access to the house. Barnes manages to get Roan to safety, but is shot himself. He sets off a bomb in the house, killing the traitors and some of the neo-Nazis. He then fled downtown with Roan to seek refuge elsewhere. However, there they are captured by a group of foreign killer tourists. Marcos and Joe watch this from the roof of Joe's shop and rush to help them. They shoot the Purge tourists and shelter Barnes and Roan in Joe's shop.
There the teenagers attack again, who have now split into two groups. This prompts Joe to call his friends Laney and Dawn, who work as paramedics and tend to the wounded during the purge . Just as Barnes, Roan, Joe and Marcos are bracing themselves for the teenagers attack, Laney and Dawn arrive and run over two of the teenagers in their ambulance. After Laney shoots the remaining attackers, the whole group leaves the area in the ambulance to look for a safer hiding place.
However, the ambulance is suddenly attacked by a helicopter, which is controlled by Danzinger. The group finds shelter under a connecting ramp for the time being . Barnes was shot in Roan's house and now finds that the bullet contains a tracker . This transmits your exact position to the neo-Nazi assistants of the NFFA. Barnes wants to remove the bullet from his chest himself. At that moment the group is suddenly attacked by a gang of Crips . However, Joe lets out the Crips gang whistle, signaling that he was once a member of the gang himself. The crips then let go of them. Laney treats the Crips group leader's wound. In return, they hide the ball with the tracker in another area in order to lead the NFFA on the wrong track.
In the meantime, Barnes, Roan, Joe, Laney, Dawn and Marcos find a kind of warehouse that is located under a hospital. This is guarded by anti-purge rebels and directed by the purge opponent Dante Bishop. The hiding place provides medical care and food. Even so, Joe, Marcos, and Laney decide to return to Joe's shop. On the way they see some NFFA trucks approaching the hiding place under the hospital. After they warn the others, they can flee in time for the trucks to arrive. The ambulance in which Barnes, Roan, Joe, Laney and Dawn are, is rammed by Danzinger a short time later and Roan is captured.
Roan is delivered to Edwidge Owens in a cathedral, who is holding a meeting there with other Purge supporters. Meanwhile, the others infiltrate the cathedral through an underground tunnel system in the hope of reaching Roan in time. Shortly before Roan can be killed by NFFA leader Warrens, Barnes, Joe, Laney, Dawn, Marcos, and other anti-purge rebels suddenly appear, and the whole gathering falls into chaos after an exchange of fire. Many of the supporters of the New Founding Fathers are killed in the process. Warrens also dies from a bullet. Owens can be provided by Bishop. However, Roan and Barnes persuade Bishop to let Owens live. Instead, Bishop knocks him out.
In the cathedral, the group also finds a large number of people who were shackled and imprisoned by Owens. While they are busy loosening their bonds, they are attacked again by Danzinger and his men. The anti-purge rebels are killed in the attack, and Danzinger also shoots Bishop. Barnes then attacked Danzinger. Both fight a bitter knife fight, which Barnes wins and can kill Danzinger. One of Owens' men was in hiding after the rebel attack. Suddenly he reappears and attacks the group. Many of the prisoners just freed die in the process. After disarming Laney and wounding Marcos, he takes aim at Roan. However, he can be stopped by Joe. After an exchange of fire, Joe eventually kills him with a headshot. Joe was seriously injured in the exchange of fire. In his last words, he asked Roan to win the election for president. He asks Marcos and Laney to take care of his shop. Shortly afterwards he dies of his injuries.
Two months after the purge , Roan wins the presidential election on May 26th by a large margin. As a first official act, she plans to abolish the purge . Barnes remains their security officer. It appears he will later be named director of the Secret Service. Marcos and Laney renovate Joe's business and continue to operate it after Joe's death. The film ends with Marcos looking out the window and looking at a US flag while the radio reports that supporters of the New Founding Fathers have started violent protests in the streets.
background
In October 2014 it was announced that director James DeMonaco was planning to release a third film in the The Purge series.
Filming began on September 16, 2015 in Woonsocket , Rhode Island, USA . There, Main Street has been redesigned to film scenes that take place in Washington, DC . Some scenes were also filmed in the capital of Rhode Island, Providence .
The film was originally scheduled to be released on Independence Day 2016 (July 4th) in the United States , but was moved forward to July 1st, 2016. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on September 15, 2016.
criticism
The film received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes , he currently (as of January 2019) has a rating of 54%, based on 147 reviews and an average rating of 5.4 / 10. Metacritic rates the film 55/100, based on 31 reviews.
Christoph Petersen from filmstarts.de awarded 4/5 stars and said in his conclusion: " The Purge is probably the only horror series that is getting better from film to film."
Web links
- The Purge: Election Year in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Purge: Election Year in the film directory celeo.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for The Purge: Election Year . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Filming for 'Purge 3' begins in Woonsocket (English) . In: valleybreeze.com , September 16, 2015. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ↑ 'Purge 3' begins shooting in Rhode Island (English) . In: turnto10.com , September 17, 2015. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ↑ Movie 'The Purge 3' to film in RI (English) . In: providencejournal.com , September 10, 2015. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
- ↑ The Purge: Election Year at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ The Purge: Election Year at Metacritic (English)
- ^ Criticism by the FILMSTARTS.DE editorial team on filmstarts.de, accessed on September 5, 2016.