![]() ![]() A Nazi-tatted man and a Harley Quinn wannabe in the back of a truck cackle at the mayhem outside and get off on the symphony of gunfire. ![]() Gun-happy cowboys show their face paint where bandanas should be. Adela finds herself in a cattle-gun trap that would probably make Anton Chigurh smile. Once the film reaches its boil, it dives straight into a mostly daytime-set nightmare. The lawless Purge Night is suitably tense, even if it turns out successfully crime-free within our circle of characters, but even for the sake of a jump scare, a pregnant wife probably shouldn’t sneak up on her armed husband during a tumultuous holiday. Here, the film builds with micro-aggressions, setting up the family of white characters and their differing beliefs versus Juan and Adela just wanting to build a new life. Anyone complaining that it isn’t subtle or too political was clearly sound asleep during the first four movies. Written by James DeMonaco-who has remained steadfast in writing all of the “Purge” films, as well as being the creator for two seasons of a “Purge” TV series-and directed by Everado Valerio Gout, “The Forever Purge” remains as direct and upsetting as ever. Is anyone safe even when the sun comes up? Our survivors will only have 6 hours to get out of Texas when the borders of Mexico and Canada open for unarmed Americans and hook up with anti-Purge tribal leader Chiago (Zahn McClarnon). ![]() Unfortunately for both families, a movement known as “The Purge Ever After” commences, going beyond those 12 hours to purify the nation. For those 12 hours, they all survive the night. That night, the Tuckers, including Caleb’s adult children Dylan (Josh Lucas) and Harper (Leven Rambin), along with Dylan’s pregnant wife Cassie (Cassidy Freeman), hunker down, while Juan and Adela join a migrant community in a shelter with military protection. (Alejandro Edda), work as farmhands for the rich, white Tucker family and get paid a “Purge protection bonus” by patriarch Caleb (Will Patton). Adela works at a butcher shop, while Juan and fellow undocumented migrant, T.T. Ten months after a married migrant couple, Juan (Tenoch Huerta) and Adela (Ana de la Reguera), have fled from a drug cartel and crossed the border into Texas to live the American Dream, it’s the eve of their first Purge. It’s a national holiday, where Purging is the American way! While “The First Purge” went back to how it all began, “The Forever Purge” continues on the path of the NFFA regaining control and reinstating the annual Purge with a surge of white supremacy across the country, kind of like the news headlines in the real world. You know the drill: the New Founding Fathers of America give the nation’s people a one-night-only carte blanche to let off some violent steam. ![]()
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