'The Purge: Election Year' (2016) Movie Review

As a franchise, The Purge is steeped in the low-budget exploitation fare of previous generations. The first film was a rote home invasion yarn with a dystopian sci-fi twist thrown in for good measure. A year later, The Purge: Anarchy was a grim, nasty throwback revenge thriller. Produced on the cheap, both were wildly profitable, and two years later we have The Purge: Election Year, which escalates the saga to an absurdist, (il)logical (hopefully) conclusion.

'The Purge: Election Year' Trailer Is Patriotic And Nuts

While I wasn’t a huge fan of The Purge, it was a promising idea—a dystopian alternate reality where one night a year all crime is legal, because apparently all we need it to get our ya-ya’s out for one night and there won’t be any the rest of the year. Or something. 

'The Purge: Election Year' Has A Terrible Title But An Awesome Trailer

No joke, when I first read the title, I thought this was a joke, but apparently The Purge 3 really is called The Purge: Election Year, which is…hilarious. Seriously, I thought it was going to be a Funny or Die sketch or something of that ilk, but no, the low-budget franchise is back to cash in on the election year frenzy, and given our presidential options, this may be a glimpse of our future. Check out a new trailer below.