Too many fans seem to be blown away

People are voting emotionally.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Synopsis of the movie. Black people are all good, even the drug dealers and murderers. White women are "ok", and like having sex with black men . All white males are evil, neo nazi's and easily dispatched by black thugs. Yep, thats about all this movie had to say.

The redeeming factor that gives this movie 5 stars is just how comical the entire concept is. You have this fictitious government that is supposed to be set in the very near future and be realistic, and is engineering a program to basically exterminate black people in the projects. And to defend the streets of Staten Island are like 10 drug dealers who are somehow just as well trained and equipped as US military personnel. On top of that, there's a side plot where a kid tries to kill a crackhead and can't manage to win with a gun against said crackhead who's outfitted with a pair of syringes. Everything about the movie is ridiculous and I don't think it completely means to be but it definitely has some funny moments.

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

I liked the first one but thought hmm they could do more with this hated the second the third was a waste of time So I went to this with my husband not expecting a great deal but wow I blown away with how good it actually was, you don't even have to watch any of the others to watch this one. It was quite real I felt like I believed the actors and the way things were. It was quite scary in some places a bit gruesome. I felt like I really wanted everything to be ok for everyone...... as stupid as that sounds. If you haven't watched the others then go watch it this you could even watch this one first then the others. Really good film would definitely watch again and I wouldn't watch any of the other purge films again