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For all its willingness to serve the viewer generous dollops of violence, noise, and terror, The Purge is oddly lacking in energy.

Every cliché is unearthed: children carelessly disobey orders, adults panic, characters wander around in the dark, and everyone seems to achieve sudden bouts of courage.

It's more appropriately described as a suspense/thriller with some particularly intriguing political and religious threads running through it.

An ugly, vile, and miserable film that essentially argues that all humans are evil.

While there is a lot of promise in the premise, The Purge just ends up becoming Assault on Suburb 13.