TheLittleSongbird Disked 'The Purge', apart from the reasonable two leads and a nice gritty look it was tired, poorly written, cheesy, tension and suspense free with annoying characters. Sort of liked 'The Purge: Anarchy', while finding it flawed in especially the writing Frank Grillo's presence livened things up a lot. Had mixed feelings on 'The Purge: Election Year', it had its moments (again Grillo and the committed cast) but the writing, uneven story and characters sunk it.Saw 'The First Purge' as somebody trying to see as many 2018 films as possible and as somebody who had not given up on the franchise. Seeing 'The First Purge', it was wholly indicative that a series that was already starting to flag had completely worn thin. There are no new ideas, anything interesting and even for a prequel it felt completely unrelated to the other 'Purge' films, having none of the few good things present in 'The Purge'. Also saw absolutely no reason for the film to be made or existing. By far the worst of the series and one of the year's worst (have seen a lot so feel qualified to say that).Absolutely nothing worked in 'The First Purge'. Although most of the acting was weak in 'The Purge', the two leads were reasonable. In 'The First Purge', all the acting is lousy, playing characters that are impossible to get behind in a film full of shallow and unrelatable characters that behave so stupidly and illogically, as well as being written in such a biased and not-for-the-easily-offended fashion. Not even the decent production values there is here, the film instead looks cheap and rushed-looking.No tension or suspense at any point and nothing scary or thought-provoking, got nothing enlightening. The pace dragged badly, which undermined the suspense, likewise with the excessive predictability and clichés that were tired well before the film was made, even more tired than in 'The Purge'. The scary aspect is cheap and never surprising, creative or scary, the violence being gratuitous, the situations so ridiculously dumb that it insults the audience and the villains are goofy and flat caricatures, nothing menacing about them. The direction is generally indifferent and the action far from exciting. In summary, awful with nothing redeeming about it. 1/10 Bethany Cox

liene-19299 It was horrendous attempt to make money on it !! It was dull , and unimaginative .. and that from a person who generally don't watch horror movies and jumps out of chair if some one comes around a corner .. sorry but if we compare election year and this .. then this one should get Oscar for worst movie made this year .. congratulations ! You won !

o o In the world today, where we have a lot of hate racial tension and just total chaos. Why in the world with somebody make a movie of this genre? Grant you when I first heard about this movie I thought oh cool movie! But this is nothing more than a racist based hate movie which has signs of the Ku Klux Klan other factors against minorities. Now I myself do not endorse movies like this nor do I even watch him. But this movie was so bad worse than a B rated Movie, I decide to sit through it. But if I have to do it again I would not of wasted my time. But luckily I didn't pay to see this movie so I am consider myself lucky. With the world the way it is and all the hate in racial tension why would anybody make a movie like this? It makes me sad with despair why people would even think about Making of this. It's not only depressing but racially hatred completely directed towards minorities. Why why why would anybody create such a piece of him reading garbage. Now if you enjoyed the movie wonderful. But those who are sensitive to issues like this and those who hate out right racially driven garbage. It's totally depressing.

dunnypop I'm a fan of the Purge films or perhaps the concept of the films. The first Purge film was a home invasion movie, Purge Anarchy was more like Mad Max/Action, and Purge Election Year was more of the same. Each Purge film brings in some interesting subtext on some extreme views of how America has become a festering breeding ground for violence. Each film starts off roughly the same. There's an interesting backstory, then the purge begins and then all subtext / ideas / ideology disappears and is surrounded by violence and action.I still like these films as they're entertaining but there is a lot to be desired. The First Purge takes you into the countries current divide and how an uprising of a new governmental party has rose from the countries divide of the Republicans / Democrats (this was literally told in a montage in the first minute). From there, there was a participatory government experiment on having the purge. The film felt more like the disenfranchised black experience of the purge and explored what Purge Anarchy discussed. The movie is entertaining but a bit ridiculous towards the end. There's a Purge TV show which seems like the right direction for the franchise.