What areThePurgemovies supposed to be?
Are they horror movies, in which were given a ludicrous set-up (all crime is legal!
so we can enjoy ideally no more than 90 minutes of gore and anarchy?
Credit: Universal
In thePurgefranchises own mind, one suspects these movies are both.
Unfortunately,The First Purgesucceeds at accomplishing neither.
(Equally incorrect casting: the monotone, middle-aged accountant-looking guy who was apparently elected president.
Arent fascists supposed to be charismatic?)
For the first two-thirds or so of the movie, the scares are lacking.
Out pops a lunatic wearing a raincoat who sprays you with water!
Oh no, hands grabbing at your ankles!
Why then, does this film feel so cardboard?
or This cabin is so far away, police wont be here for hours!)
until the final moments.
No police to help is thepreconditionfor good horror, but no more.
The KKK glide in bloody sheets through the sheets.
Evil is petty and banal.
Racists love to begin their sentences with Im not a racist, but.
A reminder: armed gunmen in Nazi costume are currently storming up her stairwell to remorselessly kill them.
Hey lady, nows not the time for an exaggerated wink to the audience.
I promise, just dealing with The Purge would be interesting enough.C+
