The Purge: Election Year's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
DeMonaco has further upped his game with the third installment by working closely with franchise cinematographer Jacques Jouffret to design rewardingly more complex action sequences and well-focused set pieces that are both efficiently executed and visually engaging.
Variety
You?d think the concept would now be wearing thin, but 'Election Year', which feels like the final chapter in a trilogy... is the best 'Purge' film yet. The action is excitingly sustained in a way that it wasn?t in the previous two, and the political dimension, while crude as hell, exerts a brute-force entertainment value.
The Wrap
Grillo is exactly the right man for this role, the thoughtful tough guy who can pull bullets out of his own body and who always looks like he needs a shower, but who can?t stop for such indulgences until he knows everyone else is safe. And the ensemble around him forms a tight, empathic unit. We want the Purge to keep going; we also want this crew to smack it down hard.
Entertainment Weekly
If, on the other hand, it?s sleazy kicks you?re after, you?ll be in exploitation heaven. Because writer-director James DeMonaco?s third chapter in the thrill-kill vigilante franchise is the best and pulpiest 'Purge' yet.
Indiewire
In theory, Election Year offers a form of catharsis from contemporary anxieties by turning them into entertainment. Instead, this latest entry in a ridiculous franchise has become a victim of its own sick joke.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote