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The Forever Purge

2021

Everardo Gout

Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas, Will Patton ...

4.6

4,868

Thriller. Horror. Action Members of an underground movement, no longer satisfied with one annual night of anarchy and murder, decide to overtake America through an unending campaign of mayhem and massacre. No one is safe. Adela (Ana de la Reguera,) and her husband Juan (Tenoch Huerta) live in Texas, where Juan is working as a ranch hand for the wealthy Tucker family. Juan impresses the Tucker patriarch, Caleb (Will Patton), but that fuels the jealous anger of ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A brutal satire of right-wing 'nationalism' and white supremacy (...) 'The Forever Purge' presents the seeds of an apocalyptic American rebellion"
		Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"DeMonaco and Gout cook up such delicious comeuppance that you can’t help but indulge in the pleasure of revenge"
		Nick Allen The Playlist	"This lazy blockbuster sequel looks like a cheap TV movie and is easily the worst one yet"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A satisfying action pic that finally realizes the potential of its pulp-meets-sociopolitics conceit"
		Jude Dry IndieWire	"The Forever Purge” feels more like an action flick than a horror film, bearing much more resemblance to 'Mad Max: Fury Road' than the 'Saw' movies."
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Thanks to the stylish directing by Gout (...) [It] is a fast-paced jam that would play well on a drive-in movie screen. Take the whole thing with a big tub of popcorn and many grains of salt (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It’s more of the same, with more murderous mayhem and more half-baked attempts at social commentary (...) This one implies that purging will never end but, unless a major series refresh is on the way, let’s hope that’s not the case (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		William Bibbiani The Wrap	"'The Forever Purge' sometimes loses its focus, but at its best, it’s still a riveting, violent, disturbing projection of how far America could backslide into the nation’s worst impulses."
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"There’s a nugget of . . . maybe not wisdom, but something gristly worth chewing on here (...) I wouldn’t call it food for thought, but it gives 'Forever' a slightly higher nutritional value than some of its predecessors"
		Joshua Rivera Polygon	"A solid thriller until it falls into the tropes it’s mocking (...) While the Purge franchise’s lack of subtlety is a big part of its charm, The Forever Purge is probably the biggest test of these movies’ unsubtle methods"
		Anya Stanley AV Club	"The Forever Purge is no better as an action movie (...) The only solace, for a weary viewer, might be in DeMonaco’s promise that this is the last of the series."
		Matt Fowler IGN	"The Forever Purge nicely separates itself from the metropolis mayhem of the previous films while also giving us a possible ending to the franchise (...) a solid entry"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"'The Forever Purge' was easy viewing (...) The overbearing political message that isn’t satirical, sophisticated or particularly frightening anymore (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Ian Freer Empire	"The fifth 'Purge' outing goes for broke and comes out wanting, working neither as political commentary nor horror-action-thriller. In this case, bigger is definitely not better (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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