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‘The First Purge’ Review #2
Stars: Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Marisa Tomei, Patch Darragh, Luna Lauren Velez, Kristen Solis, Rotimi Paul | Written by James DeMonaco | Directed by Gerard McMurray

With The Purge franchise, creator James DeMonaco has done the near impossible: develop and expand an implausible, high-concept idea into an engaging socio-political saga. Better still, he’s managed it without too much repetition. 2013’s The Purge was a simple home invasion horror; 2014’s Anarchy was a survival action movie with zombie movie tropes; and 2016’s Election Year was a broad allegory for the toxic state of American democracy in the run-up to the real-world presidential showdown. Now we are in the era of Trump, and DeMonaco – writer only this time, leaving directing duties to Burning Sands’ Gerard McMurray – has gone back to the creation of the Purge itself.

The concept of the Purge – for one night each year, all crime in...
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  • 7/6/2018
  • by Rupert Harvey
  • Nerdly
Rhys Wakefield in The Purge (2013)
‘The First Purge’: Director Gerard McMurray Crafted a Horror Film About Being a Black Man in America
Rhys Wakefield in The Purge (2013)
As “The Purge” franchise has grown over five years and four films, the series has moved from its roots as a high-concept home invasion thriller that focused on a well-off white family attempting to get through the night when their high-tech security system fails to safeguard against mad marauders during the worst night of the year. Subsequent sequels moved the action outward, and introduced more-diverse characters with timely stories. Sequels “Anarchy” and “Election Year” expanded the Purge mythology, including its roots as a government plot to eradicate poor people.

That concept drives Gerard McMurray’s prequel “The First Purge,” which dramatizes the eponymous first “experiment” in chilling fashion: A new political party (The New Founding Fathers) created the Purge as a way for an uneasy Americans to release their worst impulses, an idea they test in a 12-hour period on Staten Island. Residents receive $5,000 if they stay on the island...
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  • 7/5/2018
  • by Kate Erbland
  • Indiewire
‘The First Purge’ Review
Stars: Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Marisa Tomei, Patch Darragh, Luna Lauren Velez, Kristen Solis, Rotimi Paul | Written by James DeMonaco | Directed by Gerard McMurray

As the title indicates, the fourth movie in the Purge franchise is a prequel that depicts the events of the first ever Purge, an annual night of supposed societal catharsis where all crime is legal for 12 hours, including murder. The series showed its willingness to embrace political satire with its previous instalment (2016′s The Purge: Election Year), so you could be forgiven for expecting some hard-hitting social commentary this time round, especially given the current incumbent of the White House. However, while the film makes a number of nods in that direction, it falls short of deeper exploration, which feels like a missed opportunity.

Set in the not too distant future, the film begins with a new party, the New Founding Fathers of America,...
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  • 7/4/2018
  • by Matthew Turner
  • Nerdly
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