![]() ![]() For one night, all crime is legalized in the borough, allowing citizens to release their pent up aggression. Now run by an alternative political party dubbed the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA), the US government decides to try out their new "Purge" concept with an isolated, experimental run on Staten Island. But while a lack of depth does hamper the experience, the movie ultimately manages to provide a decent helping of grindhouse mayhem, if you can stomach the inherent ugliness of all the carnage. After all, who doesn't want a little political discourse to go along with good-old-fashioned blood and bullets? Serving as a prequel to the previous three instalments in the " Purge" franchise, " The First Purge" attempts to follow in this time-honored tradition, blending potent yet disappointingly underdeveloped themes tied to race and class with utterly ridiculous low-budget ultra-violence. Mixing low-brow thrills with high-brow commentary, exploitation flicks have a longstanding history of addressing timely social issues underneath their B-movie schlock.
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