Quick-Thoughts: The First Purge ★★★

For the most part, I was entertained by The First Purge, which may be because I’ve never seen a Purge movie before. The film is able to maintain acceptable quality due to its adequate characters. Unfortunately, they’re situated in an unconvincing universe where implausible events occur. There’s clearly a polticial message present during the runtime about modern-day, corrupt governmental treatment imposed upon lower-classed American citizens. Whether you agree with the statements or not presented in the picture, you have to give props to the filmmakers for putting something somewhat compelling in a film aimed towards gore-fest junkies. (Verdict: C+)