Purge One focused on a home invasion and was a little weak regarding depicting the horror of street violence ensuing across America on one very special night each year. Writer and director James DeMonaco definitely understood that feedback and ran with it for Purge 2. Its been over 48 hours since I viewed Purge 2 and I still have nightmares, and day terrors. I walk down the street wondering if a tractor trailer is going to lift up its back door and a guy smoking a cigar, wearing a clear plastic raincoat, baseball hat and sunglasses will spray me down with bullets using a military level stand-up machine gun. I sit in a cafe by an open window wondering whether a hoodlum wearing a geisha mask is going to wave a machete at me then hop back in his bakery truck. The subway tunnel guys with flame throwers were epic. At one point a ping of nostalgia swept across myself and movie-going friend that we wished we were watching Running Man, the original, since it’s a better movie. Social commentary was afoot in Purge 2. The manner in which the wealthy purged was completely perverse. Another observation; the couple who were ready to get a divorce but wound up stranded on a mean downtown LA street running for their lives were really annoying, especially the wife. It is a shame that eventually the husband gets mowed down in crossfire towards the end of the movie (spoiler alert!). The thought was early on that the wife was all set to be purged, since its ok to kill family and friends on purge night, anything goes! The real question is whether the current civil structure in America is better than the Purge? Probably not, since in The Purge criminals have much cooler costumes. Stay Safe! Have a good cleanse!