America's third political party, the New Founding Fathers of America, comes to power and conducts an experiment: no laws for 12 hours on Staten Island. No one has to stay on the island, but $5,000 is given anyone who does. Somewhat samey, although we see how it started … don't think this is dreadful and a rating of 1 is by far pathetic.<br/><br/>It's watchable, at times jumpy and eerie.. like the others, but slow burning but action parts are good.<br/><br/>Other Purge movies are much better, but main twisted antogonist 'Skeletor' was what made the film edgy!<br/><br/>If you've seen the others, it's worth a watch .. Had a great convo over dinner with friends about ranking Purge movies in order of best to worst, and after seeing this tonight (in a sold out theater) 6 of us agree this is the best one yet, however the 2nd Purge is a very close second. Read rotten tomatoes reviews by "critics" after the movie and sometimes I think they don't get it - this isn't an Oscar contender, don't judge it like that, but give it props where they are due, it did spend time developing characters, the story line was engaging, and the action was on point with enough cringe worthy moments to get that Purge feel… and IF you choose to acknowledge it, it goes to a whole other level as it serves up some social commentary on the current political landscape. As always this movie series gets us talking about the what if's - so, would you Purge? The most politically potent sci-fi/horror film series since the early years of George A. Romero gets a bloody, visceral and yes, emotional prequel with The First Purge, the movie that tells how we got from “here” to “there.”
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