What classics did you see last week ? (14 Apr - 20 Apr 2019)

Hi Lebowskidoo ,how did you find The First Purge to be? Out of the 4,I found this one to be the worst,with this being what I wrote on the flick:

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Stepping away from directing but continuing to script the franchise, the screenplay by James DeMonaco trims a majority of the thinly-veiled allegories of the first 3,to make this the most politically open of the series, via the Purgers being Neo-Nazis and the people trying to survive the night being Latino and African-Americans from the poverty-ridden "Hood." Aiming to make a statement on the state of the nation, the need to link it to the series makes the Horror elements stick out of place to the unfolding drama. Going for a scatter-shot of the first Purge night, the flick loses the "survive the night" group dynamic which holds the 2nd and 3rd film together, and instead goes for plodding 90's Gangsta Rap stereotypes, (without even a G-Funk score) and muddled nods to the Crips and the Bloods, which leaves the characters looking flat. Staging the first Purge, director Gerard McMurray & cinematographer Anastas N. Michos oddly have the machinery be more advanced than shown in the later films, (and an unexplained gap in no social media) which gives the action some crunch, but due to the toning down of horror elements, leads to little in a threatening mood being created, as the first purge is unleashed.