This review contains spoilersThe Purge: Election Year is directed by James DeMonaco and stars Frank Grillo and Elizabeth Mitchell. The movie is set after The Purge: Anarchy and Leo Barnes the Sargent is now the head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, played by Elizabeth Mitchell. The senator wishes to end the purge and seeks election as President of the United States. The political party that created the purge, the new Founding Fathers hires a mercenary group to kill the senator.The plot and the writing in this third movie is still not improved. Much of the problems are still here and not even hand waved by the universe. There are even more plot contrivances. One of these is a shop owner whose purge insurance is cancelled in order to elevate the tension. This is not the only event and the movie is filled with these plot devices.The movie is improved in some ways. The tone is not as serious as The Purge: Anarchy. Besides the plot devices, the violence is more organic here with the mercenary groups having a clear motive to hurt the main characters. More of the political system and society is explained this movie. The main cast of Frank Grillo and Elizabeth Mitchell are great here. The two leads have good chemistry. Even though the leads relation is basic, it does feel that the two characters care for one another. The villains seem more exaggerated in their silliness here. This lends to the less serious tone in the movie. The Purge: Election Year is recommended. It does better than its previous entry, but not greatly improve upon it. The action has more context on it now, and makes the movie better overall.This being the third movie in The Purge trilogy, the trilogy as a whole is inconsistent. The tone of the movies are wild with each one oscillating in its logic. The first movie sets up the world but its actually more elaborated in this movie. Overall the trilogy's concept is good, but the execution has been lackluster. The first movie is good for its simplicity. The second movie tried to expand on its setting but did not improve the writing. The third movie is a mix of the first two with a less serious tone.

After first movie I gave up on this franchise, but I changed my mind after I heard that sequels are better from several sources. Unbelievable, but true. While The Purge is unoriginal lame nonsense, Anarchy is decent action movie and I must admit that third one is good. It's far from greatness, but for an action movie Election Year is even slightly above average, and compared to its predecessors it's far batter. If we ignore the fact that premise is ridiculous, this movie is first in franchise which plot actually make sense and in which tension is build more on story essence than on shallow action scenes.7/10

If you set aside some of the problems with this film, the chance of violence and excellent political message with this film is actually possible.Recommended viewing. This film is no less bloody than our Civil War. Thought I'd hate it as mindless violence.The U.S. is about to implode with violence if the political insanity continues. I could see another civil war on the way, but with no borders.

The film starts out with 3 subplots. There is an election.Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) is running on the platform to eliminate the purge. Two people are protecting their store and an underground group called the Triage is helping injured people. As in the second feature, the three subplots come together as expected.In this installment the battle between the haves and have-nots symbolized with The Purge series has culminated into political parties with Republicans being represented as old white men for the Purge and Democrats lead by a woman candidate being against it. (Sorry GOP, I didn't script the film.) I think they killed the series, but left open a door.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.