Box Office Weekend: 'Apes' No. 1′ 'The Purge' No. 2, Followed by 'Planes' And …

In “The Purge: Anarchy,” once again, the New Founding Fathers invite America to exercise the rights granted in the 28th amendment and partake of the annual 12 hour period where all crime is legal (even murder –as the 

The second installments of many pics released this year have done less than their predecessor and that is going to be the case for Universal/Blumhouse's The Purge: Anarchy, which has done the best of the newbies but still will not touch the first

Built on a simple semi-sci-fi premise, 2013′s “The Purge” worked as a nervy nail-biter whose vision was slightly limited by its budget. Inventing a future holiday/tradition/pogrom called “The Purge,” where all crime is legal for 

Would you kill knowing you could get away with it? The Purge: Anarchy revisits the original and sketches in the bizarre, brutal world that would exist if you could do anything you wanted for one night a year.

While there was a political undercurrent to the 2013 original Purge, it was obscured by a dull home-invasion format. This sequel, The Purge: Anarchy (** ½ out of four; rated R; opens Friday nationwide), takes the action outdoors and into ballrooms and