Election fear.

• Author: Krayewski, Ed
• Position: Briefly Noted - Purge: Election Year - Movie review - Brief article

Purge: Election Year (out on DVD in October), the third installation of the Purge series, could be the most idiotic yet. The old sci-fi trope underpinning the movies--society sets aside one 24-hour period to "purge" its violent tendencies with a criminal free-for-all-could go in plenty of interesting directions, but Election Year misses them all.

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In the film, the Purge is referred to as a product of "predatory capitalism," with no explanation otherthan a vaguely Keynesian assertion that the destruction has eliminated unemployment.

Purge America has been controlled by the same party for 25 years--the "New Founding...