Kukkahattuseta

Watching this series, one has to wonder how Robert De Niro agreed to take on the role. The series feels like a low-budget production on every level. The kind Hollywood churns out in bulk to fill the airwaves. The plot is miserable and predictable. The characters are dull, overacted by actors who don't seem to have any faith in the script themselves (and shouldn't have, because the script is so weak). Every character comes across as simple and stupid. The constant melodramatic music, which sounds like it was made by artificial intelligence (and probably is). Additionally, some actors overact the empty dialogue so much that it hurts. Oh, and all possible clichés are in use. The icing on the cake is, of course, that the entire series itself is implausible and tries to educate in a heavy-handed way, as if educating small children.

This was just as terrible as the first Purge. The basic idea of the movie could have been somewhat tolerable if the core concept and background had been carefully thought through. But no. From the outset, the entire situation was ridiculous in every possible way, and attempts to justify it only made the whole thing even more absurd. The counterarguments were equally idiotic. Even all this could have been endured if the screenplay had improved from there onward. But once again, no. The characters and dialogue were exceptionally poorly constructed. Every scene, every line radiated complete implausibility. The script was so weak that it even made the actors seem like understudies' understudies from amateur theater. Admittedly, it could be that the actors were simply bad, but with a script this terrible, good acting is impossible.