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It isn"t particularly subtle, but The Purge: Election Year"s blend of potent jolts and timely themes still add up to lớn a nastily effective diversion. Read critic đánh giá

The Purge: Election Year (2016)

The Purge: Election Year (2016)

The Purge: Election Year (2016)

The Purge: Election Year (2016)

As a young woman, Sen. Charlie Roan survived the annual night of lawlessness that took the lives of her family members. As a presidential candidate, Roan is determined to over the yearly tradition of blood lust once & for all. When her opponents hatch a deadly scheme, the senator finds herself trapped on the streets of Washington, D.C., just as the latest Purge gets underway. Now, it"s up to lớn Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo), her head of security, to lớn keep her alive during the next 12 hours of mayhem.

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Rating: R (Strong Language|Disturbing Bloody Violence)

Genre: Action, Mystery và thriller, Horror

Original Language: English

Release Date (Theaters): Jul 1, năm 2016 wide

Release Date (Streaming): Sep 20, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $79.0M

Runtime: 1h 49m

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Production Co: Platinum Dunes, Blumhouse Productions

Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

Cast và Crew

Frank Grillo

Leo Barnes

Elizabeth Mitchell

Senator Charlie Roan

Mykelti Williamson

Joe Dixon

J.J. Soria

Marcos

Betty Gabriel

Laney Rucker

Terry Serpico

Earl Danzinger

Edwin Hodge

Dante Bishop

Kyle Secor

Minister Edwidge Owens

Barry Nolan

Reporter No. 1

Liza Colón-Zayas

Dawn

Ethan Phillips

Chief Couper

Adam Cantor

Tall Eric Busmalis

Christopher James Baker

Harmon James

Jared Kemp

Rondo

Raymond J. Barry

Leader Caleb Warrens

David Aaron Baker

Tommy Roseland

James De
Monaco

Director

James De
Monaco

Screenwriter

Jason Blum

Producer

Michael Bay

Producer

Andrew Form

Producer

Brad Fuller

Producer

Sebastien K. Lemercier

Producer

Jeanette Volturno

Executive Producer

Couper Samuelson

Executive Producer

Luc Etienne

Executive Producer

Jacques Jouffret

Cinematographer

Todd E. Miller

Film Editing

Nathan Whitehead

Original Music

Sharon Lomofsky

Production kiến thiết

David Blankenship

Art Director

Vanessa Knoll

phối Decoration

Elisabeth Vastola

Costume thiết kế

Terri Taylor

Casting

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NRA members will love lousy pseudo-political horror-thriller "The Purge: Election Year." In fact, the tagline for "Election Year" might as well be "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." 

"Election Year" doesn"t just encourage viewers to lớn cheer when garden-variety psychopaths are shot up, hit by cars, blown up, or stabbed lớn death during "Purge Night," a government-sanctioned holiday where citizens are encouraged to "purge & purify" themselves by committing crimes. Writer/director James De
Monaco (the last two "Purge" movies) also goads viewers with moral posturing by pitting working-class characters against hypocritical politicians, European "murder tourists," and other sloganeering baddies who insist that violence is an American pastime. If that"s true, then De
Monaco"s film is a prime example of the condition it derides, a fetid slice of US exploitation cinema that chides audience members while ineffectively whipping them into a frenzy. This movie is an ugly provocation, one that feels especially crass in light of national tragedies like the recent shooting in Orlando. 

Since this is the second sequel khổng lồ De
Monaco"s relatively tolerable "The Purge," "Election Year" does not significantly develop or expand on the original film"s premise. The New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA), a cartoonishly evil group of blue-blood politicians who oppress the poor, are still somehow in control, and still using Purge Night lớn line their own pockets. So it"s up lớn Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) to lớn stop Purge Night—provided she survives. The NFFA target Roan for assassination, leaving it up bodyguard Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo), & working-class bystanders Joe (Mykelti Williamson) and Dawn (Liza Colon-Zayas) khổng lồ keep the senator alive.

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The fundamental problem with this scenario is that the violence in "Election Year" is only selectively ugly. On one hand, the movie seems khổng lồ have been shot with a beer-bottle filter, và the series" usual jiggly hand-held digital photography is used khổng lồ cover instead of direct kích hoạt scenes. But the violence in the movie is supposed to lớn be not only cathartic, but downright crowd-pleasing. Roan may talk a good game, yet she never protests too much when Leo & his allies stop bad guys by murdering them. The NFFA—who don"t really resemble Donald Trump, despite the film"s tagline of "Keep America Great"—are supposed lớn be bad because they talk out of both sides of their mouths. But while their leaders protest that it is not "hypocritical" to lớn purge because violence is "purifying," we"re supposed to enjoy watching Dawn take out whatever generic bad guys that Leo isn"t able to. There may be nothing substantially different between Leo"s and the NFFA"s methods. But any claims to lớn effective satire go out the window when your villains are yelling about the American nature of violence, & the only response they get is a grisly death.

Then again, what would you expect from a film that treats blue collar heroes like Joe và Dawn as token signs of progress? There"s so much wrong with this film, from its muddy visual scheme lớn its Hans Zimmer-lite score (try khổng lồ listen khổng lồ the film"s klaxon-like music & not think of Zimmer"s "Inception" braaahm-intensive score). But the worst part is that it tries khổng lồ pass as a film about and for those who Jarvis Cocker famously called "common people." Dawn is a personality-less butt-kicking heroine—she gets by with a glare & a gun—but Joe is hatefully stereotypical. He"s curiously humanized by his need to lớn protect his bodega, whose Purge Night premiums mysteriously sky-rocket just before the Purge. But much of Joe"s dialogue is blatant, sometimes offensive pandering, like when Joe"s group is surrounded by gang members, và he laments that they"re like a bucket of fried chicken that"s about to be attacked by a bunch of "negroes." Joe"s use of the word "negro" is supposed to lớn be convivial, not offensive, but he uses it three times for the sake of establishing his everyman bonafides. How are viewers supposed to lớn trust a film that uses Joe"s race as a cheap punchline? Joe even saves Leo by revealing that he once was a gang member. And one of Joe"s regular customers only cares about two things: "pussy và waffles." Just what we need—another film that views black people through the lens of racist tropes.

To be fair: low-brow humor, race-baiting, & even acts of savage violence can theoretically be used to lớn express political anger in effectively unsettling ways (for proof, see Rob Zombie"s "The Devil"s Rejects"). But only a truly miserable and, yes, hypocritical film tsk-tsks with one hand what it offers with the other. There"s nothing specific, thoughtful or emotionally involving about "Election Night" beyond a basic need to push buttons, và get a rise out of viewers. The good guys are actually bad, & the bad guys are too indistinct lớn be hateful. Vote with your wallets, and go see something else.

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Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker và freelance film critic whose work has been featured inThe thủ đô new york Times,Vanity Fair,The
Village Voice,and elsewhere.