Though its action and few novel elements may satisfy many of those who’re willing to pay for a fourth visit to this unconvincing dystopia, series creator James DeMonaco (serving only as screenwriter here) appears to be running out of ideas for the franchise. Is it too much to wish that, having lucked into box-office success with movies that didn’t come close to fully exploiting their provocative premise, the Purge series would get better as it goes? Despite the assistance reality continues to give it, making an annual rite of government-sanctioned racial violence seem less far-fetched by the day (or by the tweet), Gerard McMurray’s The First Purge still fails to establish a persuasive connection to our own moment in time - its occasional winks to current events serving as limp zingers instead of stinging commentary.
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