5.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Purge (2013)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 5.1
Overview
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis is a stark and explicit critique of systemic class warfare, depicting a government-sanctioned event designed to eliminate the poor for the benefit of the wealthy, thereby promoting a clearly progressive ideology.
The movie features visible diversity through a key supporting character, a Black man, who becomes central to the plot. Its narrative strongly critiques the wealthy and powerful, often portrayed by white male characters, as the perpetrators of a system that preys on the less fortunate, highlighting significant socio-economic and racial disparities.
Secondary
The film portrays Christian-adjacent rhetoric and imagery being co-opted and twisted by the New Founding Fathers and Purgers to justify extreme violence and social cleansing. This depiction highlights the hypocrisy and cruelty of those who invoke religious language for oppressive ends, with no counterbalancing positive portrayal.
The Purge (2013) does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on a single heterosexual family's fight for survival, with no elements related to queer identity or experience present in the storyline.
The film "The Purge" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses exclusively on a dystopian premise where all crime is legal for one night, and a family's struggle for survival during this period. Therefore, there is no portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Purge (2013) is an original film that introduces new characters without prior canonical or historical gender baselines. Therefore, no character could have been gender-swapped from established source material.
The Purge (2013) is an original film with characters created specifically for this movie. There is no prior source material, historical figures, or previous installments from which character races could be established and subsequently altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.8
6.3
Critic Ratings
4.1
4.1
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