In order to survive, the pair join up with deli/ convenient store owner Joe (Mykelti Williamson), hardworking Mexican immigrant Marcos (Joseph Julian Soria), bad-ass EMT Laney (Betty Gabriel) and Purge detractor/ underground militant Dante (Edwin Hodge).Įdwin Hodge, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Joseph Julian Soria & Betty Gabriel in THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR. It’s up to her head of security Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo), who survived the harrowing holiday two years prior, to help her get through the night – which won’t be easy since she’s being hunted by a White Power group. She’s the NFFA’s greatest threat and you better believe they’ve put a price on her head for the upcoming Purge night. After watching her entire family be slaughtered in the Purge eighteen years ago, Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) is running for President, hoping to do away with the inhumane archaic holiday – and she’s pulling ahead in the polls with her tough stance. The fewer poor people there are, the less the government has to pay out in welfare and the more they’ll be able to pocket. It’s 2025 (as we infer from one innocuous line later in the film) and the New Founding Fathers of America’s Purge initiative has been exposed as a tool of the government to exterminate poor people. DeMonaco stops short, abruptly only scratching the surface with his observations about politics and religion, choosing to favor painting evil with laughable broadstrokes. However, clever ideas and ambitious socio-political commentary only go so far as evidenced by the third film, THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR. It preaches the dangers of a new conservative world order where the ensuing chapters of the saga level up on the future American public’s bloodlust and carnage. Writer-Director James DeMonaco’s THE PURGE franchise sets up a fascinating alternate horrific reality that isn’t too dissimilar from our own terrifying one. Starring: Elizabeth Mitchell, Frank Grillo, Mykelti Williamson, Terry Serpico, Betty Gabriel, Joseph Julian Soria, Edwin Hodge
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