This was actually a decent movie. I watched Forever Purge with L. last weekend and before I did I talked shit about the various films since I have watched all of them for some reason (click here, here, here, and here for those reviews) and even write how to survive the Purge (click here for that). It took this many tries but they managed to keep the story coherent and not make it feel like a bunch of the people were slapped together for story's sake. This takes place in 2048 and is supposed to be eight years after the lady president from one of the other films and the New Founding Fathers of America are back in control of the government and they're like “Guess what, America? We bringing back the Purge!”
This migrant married couple Juan and Adela get across the border and into Texas. Juan works for this Tucker family on a ranch where the oldest son is a piece of jealous trash with a pregnant wife. Adela works at a butcher. Like ten months later the next Purge is coming and people are lolly gagging around like they always do. The Tucker family hires security to protect them during the Purge. Juan and Adela hide with a group of folks and the Purge ends. Meanwhile the next morning it seems that some folk didn't hear the alarm and are still killing people in the street. At the Tucker house workers are revolting against them and kill the head of the family before Juan and T.T show up and shoot them away.
Meanwhile all kinda crazy shit is happening. Adela and her coworker have to fight a dude in a bunny outfit that trapped her dumb ass because she wanted to save a goat in a cage in the middle of the street. Dylan, the one with the pregnant wife that is racist, has a big truck and starts rescuing everyone in it. There are a lot of people called Forever Purge killing anyone not White called Forever Purge. The NFAA are like “This did not go as planned. We're declaring martial law!” Whatever. At one point a group of them find the main group and a lady gets killed so now this bad group is the new villain I guess. Mexico and Canada open their borders to America for the next six hours for any unarmed person so everyone is racing there but things get so bad that they change their minds. Following roses (that is a thing in this movie) they find safety and a way to sneak into Mexico. The lady gives birth, her husband happy, the end.
This movie made way more sense than the other films. I hate that the names of them make no sense so its hard to even explain what happens in each. Jumping back and forth through time doesn't help. They say that there might be another one but I'm not sure where you can go. We have already seen the first Purge, a regular one, and now one where people just don't give a fuck about the rules. It seems like the only way to end the Purge at this point is to eradicate racism and that for sure is never gonna happen.
Ana de la Reguera as Adela
Tenoch Huerta as Juan
Josh Lucas as Dylan Tucker
Cassidy Freeman as Cassie Tucker
Leven Rambin as Harper Tucker
Alejandro Edda as Trinidad "T.T." Toledo
Will Patton as Caleb Tucker
Sammi Rotibi as Darius Bryant
Will Brittain as Kirk
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