I have not seen the first 2 yet but rented them on Netflix,
I just want to know was The Purge better or was the The Purge: Anarchy better?
Both are good. But if I had to chose I'd chose this one; Frank Grillo was great and the tone was a bit better than the first one.
shareThis one was better but the next one looks good too.
shareAnarchy and the first film are similar but also quite different. The first movie plays out like a home invasion thriller while the second one has more of an action feel to it
shareAnarchy is much better. I thought the first one was terrible but I had a blast with the sequel. It's a taut, exciting little thriller that's smarter than you'd think.
shareAnarchy is a VAST improvement to the first installment. Election Year is also a lot better, as well.
shareBoth are dumb, bad movies, but this one is a lot less bad than the first one.
shareI feel like the first one is better but not by a lot. Both are good though.
shareI think most agree the first one would be the weakest. But can't blame them too much, as they had no idea at the time The Purge films would become a rather successful series. The first one is all in one house and made with a much smaller budget.
Personally I thought this one - the second in trilogy - was the best one. Felt more "realistic" to me, and the characters didn't seem as over-the-top as the ones in the third film.
I'd say this one is much better. The key difference (which I can point out without any actual spoilers) is that the first one depicts a society that could never in a million years function as a stable society. At the end of the movie, what you see shows you that damn near EVERY person, in this society seems to harbor a sociopath-level willingness to kill other people, including people they know and are outwardly friends with, and even the paltriest of grievances will be enough to make friends and neighbors try and seize the opportunity to kill you, smiling and gloating as they do so. No society could possibly function the other 364 days of the year with this level of hostility, resentment, and outright malice seething below the surface. Not when it's this widespread. It ended up taking me out of the movie.
The sequel works far better: it shows a society where the portion of society truly active during the purge and trying to kill people is actually a small minority -- bands of armed people roaming the streets, and groups of well-heeled people who snatch victims off the street and have them brought to fortified locations where they can have arena-like contests to indulge their bloodlust. But the majority of people barricade themselves in their homes or other secure locations, where they hunker down and just try to ride it out. You even see people at the start of the movie urging friends, employees, and coworkers to get home early and get off the street well before it's time for the event to kick off, and at the end -- again without spoiling anything -- you see people who might have an excuse to indulge their resentment and take revenge on people doing the very opposite. It's far more believable, and so it doesn't ruin suspension of disbelief.
Anarchy is vastly superior to the first one imo.
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