Review: The Forever Purge Leaves You Asking One Question

The original Purge (2013) was a ruthless, brutal take on horror movies that became its own cult culture. It was a new type of suspense where the people you thought you can trust are now your enemies. Where killing is legal for 12 hours a day, one day a year in the United States. Anyone could turn on you. You don’t. know who you can trust.

Fast forward seven years later, The Forever Purge is just as suspenseful and brutal. The last film in the Purge installment that touches on many themes of the MAGA era specifically anti-immigration. A sequel to the 2016 Purge: The Election Year, The Forever Purge brings it all together as a satire with major exaggerations on political views.

The movie begins as Adela and Juan, (Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta) are fleeing the violence of the Mexican cartel. Then the movie fast forwards to ten months later, Adela and Juan have found themselves settled in Texas, Adela a poultry farm worker and Juan is a horse trainer on a ranch of a wealthy family. After the purge ended, Adela and Juan are out and about in post purge Texas where the killing continues and they have to fight for their lives. Adela and Juan become. hero’s, taking out those that initiated the Forever Purge and getting many Americans and Mexican’s across the boarder.

The Forever Purge leaves one thinking, what would happen if Mexico closed its boarders to Americans that are in dire need? Just a thought.

Release date: Friday, July 2 (Universal Pictures)

Cast: Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Cassidy Freeman, Leven Rambin, Alejandro Edda, Will Patton, Josh Lucas

Director: Everardo Gout

Screenwriter: James DeMonaco

Rated R, 1 hour 43 minutes