"The Forever Purge"
Adela (Ana de la Reguera) and Juan (Tenoch Huerta) are Mexican migrants, proudly working hard and keeping their heads down in Texas, the former at a meat packing plant and the latter as a ranch hand at the farm of Caleb Tucker (Will Patton) and his children Dylan (Josh Lucas) and Harper (Leven Rambin). They have moved to this country even though it holds a "Purge Night" every year, where Americans indulge in their passion and worship of violence and cruelty under the newly re-elected NFFA.
They try to survive the night, and seem to succeed. But then the Purgers continue...
I love "Purge" movies, they're like a tradition at this point. Not only are they fun, gory old school B-movies (especially in "Anarchy" and "The Frank Grillo Variety Hour") but somewhat funny, snarling, on the nose satires of America, with occasionally chilling moments. This one is a good solid entry into the canon, covering immigration, White-supremacy, the wage gap (all too briefly, but in an on-the-nose scene about how white supremacists, fascists and Nazis use it to leap to the entirely wrong conclusions), America's obsession with death and violence, and that they support fucking fascist coups. There's some good imagery, the action is fun, and de la Reguera is the highlight of the movie (I do like that in these movies it's the women who get to shine); plus the ending is a good one.
But it meanders a lot, takes a while to get there, has an over-reliance on fucking terrible jump-scares early on, and lacks the tightness and sense of humour of "Anarchy" and "Neo-Nazi Punch Dagger Fight", instead opting for a more nihilistic approach (fitting though, considering American representatives still support a fascist coup in their own country and elect White Nationalists) than its predecessors.
I can sort of recommend it.
(P.S My heist movie idea would have been awesome to see, but noooooooooooo!)
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