Sunday, September 23, 2018

The First Purge (2018)

Director: Gerard McMurray. Cast: Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Marisa Tomei. 98 min. Rated R. Horror.

I understand there's no point making up my own film, but this was how I envisioned a prequel to the Purge movies: a story setting the sociopolitical background for needing such a once-a-year legal violence with numerous Trumpian correlates, introducing the masterminds for and against such a plan, exploring the scheming and backstabbing through which "the experiment" flourishes, and an ending scene showing the alarm announcing the commencement of the first Purge. Actually, the presence of the likes of Marisa Tomei nourished those hopes for a cerebral movie (must've seen something here). But then ... we just got the first Purge.

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