The First Purge's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
" 'The First Purge' may have toned down the insanity, but as the most political ongoing horror franchise, this series is only getting more interesting".
Indiewire
"More heavy on action than horror, ?The First Purge? builds to some of the best filmmaking in the series, with a finale set in the confines of an apartment building that positions Dmitry as a black John McClane, taking down hallways of deranged mercenaries with just a couple of guns".
New York Times
"But even the most ardent fan could find its bluntness uncomfortably timely: In our build-that-wall moment, a story about a government-sponsored plan to cull poor minorities feels less like political satire than current-affairs commentary".
Variety
"It?s likely that the film?s Purge-in-the-hood concept had more than a little to do with the success that Blumhouse, the franchise?s key production company, enjoyed with ?Get Out.?
The Guardian
"Each chapter has also grown in anger and 'The First Purge' bristles with fury. From the second film onwards, the franchise has posited black characters in key roles and here, they are the majority, making up the largely impoverished test subjects".
The Hollywood Reporter
"Like its mediocre predecessors, The First Purge really wants to get credit for being on the right side of the class war; like them, it feels like something conceived in a dorm room by kids whose professors have just given them their first taste of what's wrong with American democracy."