THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR

What if once a year the United States of America celebrated ‘The Purge’, a day where for twelve hours, starting at 7pm and ending at 7am, all crime is legal? That’s right, for twelve whole hours you can jaywalk as many times as you like and there’s not nothing nobody can do about it.

The original The Purge focused on one family in one house on Purge night, and we were left guessing as to the sort of mayhem that went on out there in the rest of the country. The sequel The Purge: Anarchy threw open the doors and followed a bunch of different characters trying to survive a night in the city after the sirens blast and the Purge begins.

The third in the series is The Purge: Election Year, released in 2016, now known as the ‘good old days’, and set in 2040 during an election year where Senator Charlie Roan is running for President on a strong anti-Purge platform. The New Founding Fathers of America (the group of faceless men who came up with the idea for the Purge in the first place) are unhappy and try to have her killed.

The premise of The Purge is such a great 'What would you do?' set up. The Purge takes all the fun of sitting around with colleagues in offices going through a step by step plan for what we'd do if we were stuck in the building during a zombie outbreak, then it removes the zombies and adds in a dash of "If there was a Purge, who would you kill? Our boss? Who suggested that? Should we? Should we kill our boss on Purge night? There is no Purge night? I know. But. What if there was?"

There are four Purges, with a fifth one due to arrive next year (you know how there’ll definitely be new movies next year) titled The Forever Purge. The plan is for that to be the final Purge. Which is a damn shame, there could always be more Purges. It’s like the CSI franchise. Give us The Purge: Miami or The Purge: Cyber.

What would I be doing in The Purge: Election Year? The Purge: Election Year follows a half dozen or so characters trying to make it through Purge Night, and I think the movie has room for one more...

A certain Peter Jones.

We join him now at an open mic comedy night in the city.

IF I WERE IN 'THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR' I WOULD: DIE