There’s a point where a character has Isaiah and Nya at gunpoint, moves to fire, and unleashes a stream of water. Our characters are rarely in any danger, and when they seem to be, half of these are either false-scares, or practical jokes played on horror-fanatics who thought they were going to see a scary movie, and not a piece of shit.
#The first purge movie#
If you’ve seen two horror movies before, then the entirety of this movie will feel stale to you. What really needs to be addressed is the horror in The First Purge. Even the political messaging in the film is undercooked, with the central theme boiling down to fight the power. The plot is at once a retread of past Purge films and a brand-new cavalcade of ridiculously stupid ideas that make very little sense. If they aren’t outwardly racist, they’re a cold, cult-like psychopath that thinks killing the proletariat will somehow solve the debt problem in America – no, I’m still not making this up. Every villain is a racist, xenophobic dickhead, right down to donning the hoods of the Klu Klux Klan, or latex-finished Gestapo uniform – no, I’m not making this up. Nya and Isaiah, especially Isaiah, are forgettable, aside from displaying levels of idiocy never before seen in film.īut the half-finished plot is downright broken. Instead the movie has its focus set on two things: our real protagonists and a still-gestating plot about cementing the Purge as a new way of American life. We don’t get to see him eating someone’s face. Unfortunately, Skeletor isn’t the main character. This character is so over the top, so out of control, that he became my favorite character of the entire movie. He has scars on his face, he’s clearly out of his mind, and he’s probably thinking about eating your face. The movie wants you to be hopelessly intimidated by this man. The very first shot of the movie is a close-up shot of his face, staring into the camera with a shit-eating grin. What, you don’t know him? Skeletor is a coke-sniffing rage fueled psychopath who, for the entire duration of The First Purge, made me laugh my ass off. People are skeptical that anyone will take part, but as the murdering and masks-per-capita soar, our heroes must fight to survive with the help of Dmitri (Y’lan Noel), Nya’s ex-friend, and leader of a local drug operation.īut, before we meet any of those people, we’re introduced to fucking Skeletor.
The titular first purge is the focus, making The First Purge a prequel for the series, though it hardly matters. This time around, we follow Nya (Lex Scott Davis) and Isaiah (Jovian Wade), two siblings struggling through life in a project on Staten Island. The First Purge starts off with a fresh set of protagonists, as does every Purge movie. I ended up laughing and cringing more than I did squirming in my seat. With this year’s installment, The First Purge, nothing has changed. I don’t get why people keep flocking to see these movies that continue to ride the same dull, half-baked premise into theaters near you every single year. Not even slightly – and that’s why I just don’t get it. If you happen to walk into a theater this fall to see the next Halloween movie, you can at least expect to be on edge, somewhat uncomfortable with what the movie could throw at you.
There’s a real fear, a miasma of dread that hangs over seeing these movies. These films don’t always succeed in scaring the audience, but they do try to be scary.
#The first purge series#
Series like Insidious or Saw are, for the most part, poorly written excuses for a nightmare to emerge onscreen. Of all the contrived horror franchises, The Purge series of films is the most perplexing to me.
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