It’s an exercise in excusatory obfuscation, peddling the idea that the Republican New Founding Fathers leadership that whipped the Capitol Rioters Purge Purification Force into a frenzy were unaware of what they were doing, powerless to prevent what came next and shouldn’t really be held directly accountable. There’s a direct parallel between the racist, white supremacist Purge Purification Force and the Capitol rioters, both whipped into a frenzy by manipulative populist politicians only to see their propagandized momma’s boy militias spin out of control. As a metaphor, though, THE FOREVER PURGE leaves something of a nasty taste in the mouth. The MAGA comparison is particularly obvious this time around because this is blatantly a gossamer-thin allegory of the January 6 th Insurrection done with all the subtlety and sophistication of a guy wearing face paint and a buffalo helmet waving a confederate flag. It’s not like they’re going to enthusiastically embrace a movie where they’re the bad guys, so losing audience share isn’t likely to be that big a problem. Everyone knows that who these films are about, especially this one. Or, in this case, a Purger a MAGA supporter. You know what? The producers of these movies need to stop pussyfooting around and just call a spade a spade.
Ten months later, Juan and Adela join a migrant group behind a walled sanctuary with paid armed guards to protect them during The Purge, the night passes without event for the sheltering group but when the morning sirens come, a hardline group calling themselves the Purge Purification Force declare that this Purge will never end. At the same, time, a migrant couple, Juan and Adela, cross the border into Texas illegally to escape from a Mexican drug cartel and start a new life. In 2048, eight years after their defeat in THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR, the New Founding Fathers of America regain power and re-institute their signature annual Purge policy once again. So THE PURGE is back – and this time it’s FOREVER! Oh, sure, there’s that spin-off featuring an enfeebled, bitter old man holed up in Florida but it’s got none of the whacky melodrama of old and, to be honest, all the upcoming teasers make it seem like it’s going to turn out to be another LAW & ORDER spin-off rather than a continuation of THE WORST WING. Oh, thank God there’s another PURGE movie because I was starting to get withdrawal pangs following the end of the reality TV version which ran from 2016 to January 20 th this year.
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