Review of The First Purge (2018) by Glenn Kenny for RogerEbert.com — 03 Jul 2018
Once the mercenaries start tooling around wearing actual Ku Klux Klan outfits, the pretenses to allegory have gone out the window. And yes, it is salutary to see guys with pointy hoods getting blown away by righteous African-American avengers.
But the cinematic cost of getting there was not, for this viewer, worth it.
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This review of The First Purge (2018) was written by Glenn Kenny and published by RogerEbert.com on 03 Jul 2018.
The First Purge has generally received mixed reviews.
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