The Purge Movie Review (2024)

The Purge follows a family of 4 on the night where all crime, including murder, is legal for 12 hours. Despite their advanced security and lockdown tech, the family is faced with dangerous and mind twisted decisions when a homeless man is let inside their home. Little did they know he was a hit target for hunters, and the entire family is now being hunted. The question is, is this film appropriate for your children? In this review I will break down every form of mature and inappropriate content in 5 categories:VIOLENCE: The entire film is filled with graphic and disturbing content along with brutal violence. In the very opening scene of the film, surveillance footage of brutal murders and attacks are shown. A man has his face bashed in, a family is shown lying dead on their driveway, people are shot in the face, etc. however this sequence is quite mild and shows lack of detail or blood due to the poor quality of the cameras and since most of it is in black and white.A teenager unexpectedly pulls out a pistol and is shot in self defense by a main protagonist. This is a very brief scene and little blood is shown on impact, however the boy is dragged upstairs drenched in blood spurting out of his shirt and onto a teenage girls body. A homeless man is brought into the house, later found to be a hit target. When he is found, the family tried their best efforts to hand him over the purgers, but he fights back by holding a teenage girl hostage with a gun pointed to her head. He later hits her face, and is tackled to the ground and shot in the lower abdomen. After this, his head is hit hard with a metal object, knocking him out (Note that this scene is hard to see and fast moving, so none of that violence is in detail). He is then tied up and tortured by a woman sticking a letter opener in his open wound repeatedly. This part is extremely bloody and lengthy unlike the previous sequence.Purgers break into the house. Firstly, a purgers drags a child around on the ground and is about the shoot him, but before the child can be shot his father fires several bullets into the back of the purgers head, killing him (bloody). Then, 2 purgers with a hatchet and a gun engage in a fight with a man. They attempt many times to swing at the man and shoot him but miss. Then the first purgers is knocked out and the other purgers pushed the man to the ground strangling him. The man grabs a pool ball and smashes the side of his head, then he strikes and kills him with a hatchet. Afterward, he roams the room shooting the dead bodies with his shotgun to make sure they are dead (very bloody, graphic). Afterwards, the man is stabbed with a knife and left to die (bloody, up-close). Most of the rest of these sequences just include bloody shootings.An entire family is tied together crying during a ritual surrounded by blood thirsty purgers with knives, but before they can be stabbed, a man intervenes, shooting a purger to death and ordering them to untie the family.A woman is bashed in the face with a shotgun and has her head smashed violently against a table. She screams as blood pervasively pours out of her nose, face and mouth.LANGUAGE: The language in this film is very infrequent, and only shows up towards the end in intense moments. During the course of the film curses such as f*ck, f*cking, motherf*cking, d*mn, and godd*mn are used, however mostly only in one scene towards the end.DRUG USE: None at all.SEXUAL CONTENT/NUDITY: Two teenagers kiss in bed as the girl starts unbuttoning her shirt before the boy interrupts and leaves the room. Very mild, none other than that.FRIGHTENING SCENES: The entire film is very frightening and extremely nerve racking to watch with jump scares, unexpected moments of brutality and suspenseful, dark atmosphere!OVERALL: Due to the violence, I recommend ages 12-13 and up to watch!

The movie itself was entertaining and my 13 and 11 year old were watching it with my wife as well. There is strong language throughout the movie and some use of alcohol. Besides this there is not much else that happened in regards to the R rating. The movie itself and the plot were very well executed and thought out. There is no sex or intimate scenes throughout the movie and my family enjoyed it for what it is. Recommend for 13+ for anyone else unless the child is mature enough from your judgment.