The Purge: Anarchy

In the near future, the annual purge returns, that one night a year when no police or fire departments will respond, no hospitals will be open, and no crime will be punished for 12 hours. This time, instead of being trapped with Ethan Hawke in his house, we're stranded outside with a motley group who weren't able to make it to safety. Like the first movie, it's really just another Saw or Hostel movie with delusions of George Orwell—writer-director James DeMonaco salts his script with references to the New Founding Fathers, America reborn as a crime-free dystopia and other pretentious touches. The premise grew stale halfway through the first movie, and DeMonaco made the mistake of killing off Hawke so that now he's dependent on stars of much lower wattage—Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford.