The First Purge Movie Review
The New Founding Fathers of America, the latest political party in the United States, can't figure out what to do about low income, crime-infested communities, and tired of paying for them to live, decide to conduct an experiment to kill them: ALL crime will be legal for one night in Staten Island, and to encourage those who live there to stay, they offer them $5,000 each...and more, depending on how much killing they do. This is the prequel film for the Purge franchise, the fourth film overall, and it continues the political nonsense set forth by the other films (particularly the second and third outings). When the good folks of Staten Island decide to party instead of kill, the government sends in professional mercenaries to kill everybody off...they are easily disposed of by professional drug deal Dmitri (Y'lan Noel).
Dmitri The Mighty
This movie gives us nothing new--it's the same tired story of poor black people being held down and killed by the evil white people we saw in the other movies, except they one-upped it here by putting some of those dastardly whites in Ku Klux Klan hoods. We get more of the "people wearing masks and doing random stuff" scenes, but this is scaled back here, traded for more gunfire...so much gunfire. Literally everything in this film plays out precisely as you expect it to. The only part of this movie that is even remotely interesting is the Isaiah character (played nicely by Joivan Wade), who, near the beginning, weighs his desire for revenge against a man who has bullied him and his want to be safe on the night of the purge. Had this been made the central story, this could have been a decent film, but this part of the story fades away--one can only hope this franchise will do the same, but The First Purge made over one hundred million dollars, so that likely won't happen...think of all the rich white people who lined their pockets with that profit! Loyal readers, know I love you--you are the only reason I subjected myself to this disaster.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 3
The First Purge Movie Trailer
Here are my reviews of this other three films from the series:
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