Storyline
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government forces Barnes and Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night.
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Mykelti Williamson, Frank Grillo, Terry Serpico, Tom Kemp, John Franchi, Joseph Julian Soria, London Hall, Chemi Che-Mponda, Hank Amos, Rosemary Howard, Elizabeth Mitchell, Lonnie Farmer, Edwin Hodge, David Aaron Baker, J. Jewels, Raymond J. Barry, Ethan Phillips, Kevin DeCoste, Nick Principe, Liza Colón-Zayas, Christopher James Baker, Johnnie Mae, Kyle Secor, Matt Walton, Pamela Figueiredo, George Lee Miles, Alexander Schuler, Naheem Garcia, Alexander Cook, Kt Baldassaro, Lexie Roth, Betty Gabriel, Jay Hieron, Christopher Cagle, Tanja Melendez Lynch, Arthur Hiou, Macayla Botelho, Melanie Blake Roth, Stephanie McIntyre, Stephanie Ann Saunders, Kimberly Howe, Roman Blat, Barry Nolan, Adam Cantor, Jared Kemp, Brittany Mirabile, Naeem Duren, Steven Barkhimer, Portland Helmich, Antoine Coetzee, Drew Cooper, Tom Paolino, Emily Petta, Juani Feliz, Jamal Peters, Thomas Kee, Christy Coco, Darcie Fisher, Lindsey Pires, Emily Smith, Terry Conforti, Ian Gatheca, Ian Dylan Hunt, Hashim Lafond, Jordan Lloyd, Alex Madera, Wayne Malm Jr., Malcolm C. Murray, Dora Winifred
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Reviews
80
DeMonaco has further upped his game with the third installment by working closely with franchise cinematographer Jacques Jouffret to design rewardingly more complex action sequences and well-focused set pieces that are both efficiently executed and visually engaging.
80
You’d think the concept would now be wearing thin, but Election Year, which feels like the final chapter in a trilogy...is the best “Purge” film yet. The action is excitingly sustained in a way that it wasn’t in the previous two, and the political dimension, while crude as hell, exerts a brute-force entertainment value.
80
Grillo is exactly the right man for this role, the thoughtful tough guy who can pull bullets out of his own body and who always looks like he needs a shower, but who can’t stop for such indulgences until he knows everyone else is safe. And the ensemble around him forms a tight, empathic unit. We want the Purge to keep going; we also want this crew to smack it down hard.
75
The film’s comical bluntness could also be construed as off putting, but to criticize that is to deprive yourself the joy of such pulp. And this is pulp, from the brazenness of its violence to the dull bite of its clunky dialogue. What Election Year offers isn’t nuanced satire, but rather a kind of catharsis, a release that’s not so far off from what the Purge itself purports to provide.
75
If, on the other hand, it’s sleazy kicks you’re after, you’ll be in exploitation heaven. Because writer-director James DeMonaco’s third chapter in the thrill-kill vigilante franchise is the best and pulpiest Purge yet.
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