Purge, The: Election Year

Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Years after sparing the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.

More information on this production is available at www.thepurge.co.uk.

The critical consensus

An overarching narrative means that the latest entry in the Purge franchise makes for visceral but unwieldy viewing.

(*) (*) Matt Glasby, The List, 22/08/2016

In the end, this Purge is little different from the last one.

(*) (*) (*) Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 24/08/2016

James DeMonaco tries to up the political ante in his grisly franchise about US citizens caught up in an annual slaughter. And fails.

(*) (*) (*) Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 25/08/2016

Election Year maintains the nervy tension that made the first films entertaining, but doubles down on the political metaphors, overwhelming you with its soap-box rhetoric.

(*) (*) William Thomas, Empire Online, 16/08/2016

The dystopian crime-frenzy horror franchise seems to have run a little short of new ideas.

(*) (*) (*) Wendy Ide, The Observer, 28/08/2016