The Purge: Anarchy is a 2014 American action thriller film directed and written by James DeMonaco. It is the sequel to the 2013 film The Purge and stars Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Zoë Soul, and Michael K. Williams while Edwin Hodge reprises his role of Dwayne from the first movie. It was released worldwide on July 18, 2014. The film was met with generally mixed reviews, though many critics agreed it was an improvement over the first film, and was a box office success, grossing $102 million compared to its $9 million budget.
Movie Details:
Directed by: James DeMonaco
Produced by: Jason Blum, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller, Sebastien Lemercier, Michael Bay
Written by: James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Michael K. Williams
Music by: Nathan Whitehead
Cinematography: Jacques Jouffret
Edited by: Todd E. Miller
Production company: Blumhouse Productions, Platinum Dunes
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date(s): July 18, 2014
Running time: 103 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $9 million
Box office: $102,035,000
Source:Wikipedia n IMDB
Plot:
It is March 21, 2023, hours before the Annual Purge. While television programs credit the Purge for record low unemployment and poverty levels, people across the country are preparing either to commit acts of violence or to barricade themselves indoors against the mayhem. Meanwhile, an anti-Purge resistance group intermittently hacks into television programs to broadcast their own messages that challenge the system. In Los Angeles, Eva Sanchez, a waitress, rushes home to her daughter Cali and her terminally ill father Papa Rico. As they prepare to lock down for the evening, Papa Rico slips out of the apartment and into a waiting limo. He leaves behind a note explaining that he sold himself to a wealthy family as a Purge offering in exchange for $100,000 which will be transferred to Eva's and Cali's bank accounts following the Purge. A couple named Shane and Liz are driving to the house of Shane's sister to wait out the Purge. They stop at a market but when they return to their car, Shane is startled by a man with white facepaint, whose gang silently taunts them. They quickly drive away, but their car dies just as the Purge begins. They discover that their fuel line was cut, and that the gang had tampered with the car. The aforementioned gang then shows up, forcing Shane and Liz to flee on foot. At the same time, police sergeant Leo Barnes goes out into the streets to get revenge on the man who killed his son while driving under the influence of alcohol twelve months ago. Leo is skilled in combat and is heavily armed. Eva and Cali hear a truck pull up in the street and watch as heavily armed and high-tech paramilitary men fan out into the neighborhood. A drunken neighbor bursts into their apartment intending to assault them both, but before he can, the paramilitary men enter, kill him, and drag Eva and Cali into the street. Leo drives by and, impressed by their attempts to fight back, rescues them, killing all of the guards and wounding their leader, Big Daddy. When they return to Leo's car, they find Shane and Liz hiding in the back seat. Leo tries to kick them out but must take them all when Big Daddy begins firing a Gatling gun at them. However, a short time later Leo's car is disabled by the bullets. When Eva promises that she can get him another car at the apartment of her co-worker, Tanya, Leo agrees to take them there on foot. They saw most death squad soldiers were killed by anti-Purge resistance group. While on their way to the subway, they were attacked by Purgers whom Leo, Shane, and Liz manage to fight back. The protagonists finally reach Tanya's apartment, but must flee again when Tanya is shot by her sister in front of them. Big Daddy, who has been tracking them through traffic cameras, arrives with more armed guards. Leo and the others manage to slip away only to be captured by the gang that had been pursuing Liz and Shane. The hired gang delivers them to a theater where upper-class Purgers bid on the right to kill them. After being auctioned off, the five are sent to a purging chamber. Leo kills and drive off the Purgers, but soon they are outnumbered by the security forces of the elite who shoots and murdered Shane. Suddenly, numerous and highly organized anti-Purge resistance fighters, led by Carmelo and Dwayne, storm the compound and rescue them, revealing a significant armed revolt. Liz chooses to stay with the resistance fighters to get revenge on people responsible for Shane's death. Leo, Eva, and Cali take one of the cars in the theater parking lot and leave.
Leo finally drives to the house of Warren Grass, the man who killed his son. After confronting the man and his wife in their bedroom, Leo leaves the house seemingly purged of his hate. Once outside the house, Leo is shot and wounded by Big Daddy. Big Daddy reveals that the New Founding Fathers believe that the Purge is not killing off enough of the lower class and have been secretly sending out death squads to increase the body count. He informs Leo of the unwritten rule: do not save people. As Big Daddy is about to kill Leo, Warren—who Leo forgave and spared—steps out of his house, shoots and kills Big Daddy. As Eva, Cali, Warren, and the death squad have a Mexican standoff over Leo, the alarm siren sounds to announce that it is 7:00 AM and that the Annual Purge is finished. As a result the other death squad members leave the scene. Warren, Eva and Cali rush to take Leo to the hospital as emergency services rush to clean up the Annual Purge.