Earlier today, I watched the latest installment in The Purge franchise at my local AMC theater. Needless to say, The Forever Purge is my favorite sequel yet. While the previous movies dealt with different groups of characters and how they managed to make it through 12 hours of lawful destruction and murder, The Forever Purge was about folks trying to survive not only during the Purge, but afterwards when a nationwide hate group—known as the Ever After Purgers—continued violent attacks across America despite the final siren bringing the government-sanctioned carnage to an end.
What makes The Forever Purge more intense that its predecessors is that it is definitely inspired by the divisiveness that afflicted the United States during the Trump presidency. Not only is it intense, but the film is also a lot scarier in that the hate-filled acts portrayed in this movie feel more plausible; there are folks (as shown during the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol) who would be more than willing to don scary outfits, form murderous militia teams, and purge this country of people deemed un-American for as long as it takes. (Imagine what the QAnon movement would become if the Purge actually existed...) And The Forever Purge ends with an interesting twist on real life by labeling Yanks who survived the mayhem by crossing the U.S./Mexico border as "American Dreamers."
The final scene in The Forever Purge is a powerful one: I won't tell you what happens to the main characters themselves, but we see peace and calm at a refugee camp in Mexico while on the other side of the border, Texas (where the entire film takes place) is engulfed in fire and smoke. And the very last shot is a night-side POV from space showing the United States completely covered in flames...to exemplify that the NFFA, the New Founding Fathers of America, was being destroyed by its own experiment. Powerful stuff—especially for a sci-fi action-horror flick.
I look forward to the next Purge film!
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