 So this movie was very racially and politically charged, so let's talk about it. My name is Brandon Keith Avery, and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning into my Epin Slash review. For the first purge, I really do appreciate it. And I just want to let you know you probably see it in the thumbnail and you saw it in the title just in case you missed it for some reason. This is going to be a spoiler field review, meaning I am going to talk spoilers as if you've already seen the film. I am going to talk spoilers up, down, left, right, in and out as if you've already seen the movie. So you have been warned. One reason I want to talk about spoilers or talk spoilers in this video is one is just the subject matter, the subject material, and two because this film has been out over a week now and so there's been a lot of comments online and I just want to put my two cents out there. But as far as the purge is concerned, the franchise, this is the fourth film in the franchise I have seen off films. If you want to say great things about this franchise is you don't have to see all the other movies. You can see one of them. You can see all of them. You don't have to see them in order because the theme is the purge, people killing people and they have different locations and different times and things like that. So it's just taking place in different points of view in life within this universe or whatever. So that's one thing. But like I said, I have seen off films. The first one I was really, really, really disappointed with that film. I thought it was pretty much horrible. It was a home invasion film. The second one was Frank Grillo who plays Crossbones in the MCU, Captain America, one of the soldiers, Captain America, Civil War. The first, the second one, 2014, I liked it a lot better. Before I saw this one, that was my favorite and then purge the election year, the last one that came out 2016, 2000 years ago. I said 2000 years ago, two years ago, 2016. I was disappointed with that film too. It still wasn't as bad as part one. So I liked the second one. The third one was next and then the first one was in last place. So when I first saw the trailer, oh, and I'm taking my time, guys. I don't know how long this video will be. If you are one of the people that have commented in the past, hey, your reviews are too long. Thank you for giving your opinion, I appreciate it. But this video may not be for you, so I'm just taking my time. So when I first saw the trailer for the purge election year, I was like, oh, they're making another purge movie. Really? And I was like, okay, I wasn't that excited. And you can subscribe to my channel and go check out the reaction if you like. It's in the videos tab. I didn't check out the cast before I saw it. So when I'm watching the trailer reacting to it, you know, I see there's a whole bunch of black people. I'm like, oh snap, black people, yeah, go black people, yes. You know, I'm excited. You know what I'm saying? This is dope. You know what I'm saying? I get to see people that look like me in a movie. You know, and as far as this universe is concerned, because, you know, we just haven't seen it. And so then I thought about it. I was like, oh, it's the purge, man. So it's going to be a lot of killing and death. I hope the black people make it. But I'm just like, all right, you know what I'm saying? You know, black people. So anyway, ended up seeing the film. And let's just talk about, you know, just the timeline. This is a prequel. This is the first purge, like the title suggests. In all the other purge movies, it was a nationwide event. This is not an event. This is an experiment. And well, this is still an event. It's an experiment. And it's only going to be on one island, Staten Island or whatever. And the way they set up the film is, you know, people are poor. People are angry. People are frustrated. And America needs this. And this is just, you know, an experiment. You know, we're trying to study psychological behavior and do this and do that. And of course, you always have your organizations behind the scenes to have nefarious plans and things like this. And I'll tell you motives. Yada, yada, yada. You got your evil corporate people over here. And then you have, you know, your scientists and your psychologists and, you know, your all those, you know, good PhDs and things like that. And the one of those, her name is Dr. Updale played by Marissa Tomei. Her character name is the architect. She's the one that thought all this up. And you know, she's the one that I guess you're supposed to kind of sympathize with in a way or kind of in a way, understand where she's coming from. Even though you don't. I watched this. They're like, this is just disgusting. Like, oh my gosh, this is just savagery. You know, the other gentleman, chief of staff, Arlo Sabian, played by Patch Dora or Dorae. I don't know if I'll print it. You know, he's the evil guy. Man, they, they, they did fine. Their characters were okay. I'm not surprised with where they went with it. You know, but, you know, they're, they're just their Marissa, Marissa Tomei. She's a, you know, a decent actress. She's Aunt May right now in the MCU. And you know, she was fine. She was serviceable. Yilan, I believe I'm saying his name correctly, Yilan Noel. He was Dimitri in this film. He is the main actor. You know, we all know him from insecure season one and two. He is the, one of the ex-boyfriends of, I forgot the girl name in the, in the show or whatever. And insecure, I'm gonna, I'm not going to be able to relax until I look up her name or whatever. Let me, the first purge. I just have to see. I'm sorry guys. This is, this is, this is just going to bug me if I'm going to shoot myself. No, I'm not going to shoot myself, but I'll be like, Oh gosh, Brandon, you couldn't think of Issa. Yeah. Yeah. I'm tripping. He is the ex-boyfriend of her or whatever. And in this movie, like he's a drug dealer. You know, he moves weight. He moves coke. And I mean, while I think he's a good actress in this movie, you know, the way they portrayed him is corny. I mean, they shouldn't be praising, you know, drug lords anyway. You know, recently, you know, in this film, his girlfriend or a strange girlfriend is, her name is Nyla. She's great as well. I want to give her her full name is Lex Scott Davis. She, you know, like you can kind of tell that they had a relationship in this movie. I liked her character in this film. She was also in Superfly. They came out a couple of months ago last month and she was great in that as well. But and I want to bring up Superfly as well and tied to her because the gentleman in Superfly, he was a, he, you know, he moved weight to or whatever. But I liked his character much more in Superfly than I liked Dmitri's character Yilan Noel in the first purge. The reason being is, is in the first purge, they just, Dmitri, they just kind of made his, his existence a little corny. The way he answers to people, you know, if he was in his lair, his, his clubhouse, whatever his, we know wherever he lays his head, somebody come talk to him. You know, we need to talk our my office and it's like, dude, you know what I'm saying? You too hard for yourself. Chill out. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just the writing, you know, that, you know, he was given. I just wasn't a fan of and Superfly, that guy, he was much more humble. You know what I'm saying? Wasn't that flashy? And the first purge, Dmitri just kind of, you know, when he stepped on the scene, you know, he just kind of seemed like he expected people to bow down. You know, I'm not saying that he was a villain or anything like that. And I don't, I'm, you know, I don't want to just throw him under the bus, but I can't just say that, you know, I liked his character. I liked the actor, you know, but, you know, they could have did a better job, you know, with his role. Um, there's another main character by the name of Isaiah in here, Jovi and Wade. I'm not too familiar with his work. Um, he's a young guy, you know, he did a decent job. You know, he was just kind of scary in this film for me. But, um, I mean, you go to this movies, you know, because you want to see the murders and the killers and things like that. And it's just so crazy that, you know, they were able to put this film together and how much it relates to what is going on right now in the country. Uh, in the intro, I did say that this video is very racially, this film is very racially and politically charged and it is. Um, I mean, we always have real life commentators pop up and pop, you know, pop films and, um, uh, recent films where they have news anchors, you know, sometime I'll see Roland Martin pop up this one. We saw Van Jones pop up and initially I thought that we were just going to get, um, you know, just some voice over, but he was actually in the film commentating on just the craziness of the purge. And you know, we, what's going on right now in the country, you know, you have these group of people over here that are just like, Hey, we want to do this, but you have this group of people over here protesting and no, this is evil. This is not America yada, yada, yada. You know, sometimes it's a bunch of like white noise and fake outrage and things like that. Same thing in this movie right here. You know, you have people protesting. You have people that actually care and give a crap. You know what I'm saying? And that was a way to pull me into the film is something that I actually liked about is because I could relate to what's going on. So I'm just like, man, is this really what's happening? And I'm saying like, yeah, I really just going to let this go down right here. And like, this is just crazy. Like, why is this normal? You know what I'm saying? You know, everybody should be like, Oh my God, bless for me. Are you serious? The, you know, we're all going to burn, but you know, it's, it's, uh, you know, so it really, you know, it's able to kind of pull you in like that. Um, you know, and especially dealing with, you know, black and brown issues to the main dang plot of the movie. If you look at it after the rise of a third political party, the new founding fathers of America, and let's talk about the new family fathers that come in here trying to run game on everybody talking about, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans, you know, haven't done anybody good at all. And, you know, since the inception of this country. So we, the new founding fathers will come and, uh, you know, save the day and hence we going to do this purge and things like that. Well, you know, the new family behind the scenes, pulling out of strings, making people fight back and forth. You know, um, anyway, you know, given this group blaming this group, bunch of stupid stupidity, but they know that that's the plot of the movie. After the rise of third political party, the new founding fathers of America and experiment is conducted no laws for 12 hours on Staten Island. No one must stay during the experiment. Yet there is a $5,000 reward for anyone who does. So they're just taking advantage of, uh, you know, poor people, disenfranchised people, people that they put into the ghetto. You know what I'm saying? And it's just like, Hey man, just, you know, you need this 5k. We've got this experiment going on. You know, this is disposable to us. You know, so that's how they hook people. You know what I'm saying? And in the real life, you know, people are desperate. So I'm just really like, okay, I really wonder how they're going to, you know, go and do this. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, black people going to come save the day and kill everybody. And we're going to get to that. We're going to get to this. So the setup I'm on board with initially is kind of just like weird and just, you know, like just in your face, like, damn, you know what I'm saying? This is like, so what's going on right now in the country. You know what I'm saying? But I was on, I was on board with it. I was on board with it. You know, then we just get, really get to the plot of the film and I really like what they were doing with it. And let me talk about the, what the writer was doing with this is his name is James Delmonico. And so I'm praising him now at the very beginning of the film. I don't, I don't even want to say the praise. I'm giving him props. He's the director of the first, second and third film and also writ. He also wrote them as well. But the director is Jarrod McMurray. I'm not too familiar with his work. When I look at his filmography on IMDB, the only film he's directed is Burden Sands about hazing and exposing that in college campuses. Excuse me. And he's only done two other short films prior to that. You know, but we're going to talk about him in a second. But you know, right now I'm just like, okay, you know, the writing for this is, you know, a pretty decent day on point other than, you know, some of the character arts and things like that. What I found interesting is in the real world, there are certain groups of people that like to paint black people as violent and ignorant and just don't know what to do with themselves. And you can't, you got to keep them in check. You got to keep them in place because we let them lose. They're just going to run wild and do all type of crazy stuff. So that was the idea is that, you know, there's just going to be a bunch of black people in this film that's just going to run a muck and write and rob and this and that and that. And no, that is not what happened in the movie. The black people was like, I'm not finna go out here and get my head busted open. I mean, you had maybe a knucklehead here and two like how I want to go back and get all my ATM fees. You know what I'm saying? I'm 250s and up. You know, adding up or whatever. You know, I could have been spending that $1 movie at the burger place. Well, I don't want to encourage burgers. But anyway, I was just being silly. But you had a few knuckleheads here and up. But for the most purpose, I'm finna go to church or I'm finna chill over here in the house and parlay. Watch me some Netflix and, you know, try to chill and get this 5k or whatever. They just didn't depict black people as a bunch of animals and things like that. I mean, the murder in the killing started and that was fine. I talked to my homeboy about this on Facebook and he was kind of pissed off about this. He was like, see, that's the problem, B. You know what I'm saying? Black people need to wake up and get together because this movie pissed me off because during a serious time like The Purge, where everybody wanted to go, they wanted to go out on the street and party and not take things seriously and mount up. I was like, well, I can kind of understand everybody just going to be raping and murdering and killing each other and things like that. No. So what are they doing in the movie, man? The white people getting mad. They racist. You know, Marisa told me, she was like, well, hey, you know, this was somewhat expected. She wouldn't take notes. Oh, why are they not killing each other? We need them to kill each other. Overpopulated. We got to take care of it like this. It's just vicious savagery. I mean, these people are crazy. They're sick. They were sick in this movie. People like that in real life that are just sick or whatever. So I don't want this thing to be too long to be honest with you. So I'm going to get to that. So the characters, they were cool. This set up, it was cool. I was engaged. I was interested. I was really in, you know, just, you know, really wanting to see where, how things were going to turn out, you know, how they were just going to set things up. And so this is what a movie just kind of made me uncomfortable. Because it got a little too realistic. So we all know, I mean, you got a white supremacist and you got a white extremist. White supremacist can be, you know, basically everybody calling the cops on black people right now for barbecuing and trying to swim and sell water and things like that. You know, there could be a policeman, fireman, the teacher, your co-worker, could be a judge, can be the person to drive the best person that, you know, swipes should take your ticket at the movie theater, whatever. A white extremist is Dylan Roof that goes into a church and actually, you know, slaughters into some black people. They had a scene like that in this film or whatever. And, you know, I was just like, man, that's messed up. But it was the government or whatever, behind the scenes, trying to make them seem like this was some gang violence or something like that. But, you know, no it wasn't. You know, it was some KKK and, you know, just some underground militia military company and trying to pretend like they're gangs. You know, the KKK in this film could have been real, too. It could have been set up by the government, too. You know, in this film. You know, but they had that just really, just really innocent black people getting slaughtered for no damn reason. And I didn't like that. And then Gerard McMurray is a brother. I'm like, hold on, bro. You know, James DeMonaco, I don't know how he feels about whoever. You know what I'm saying? But he's not. And I'm like, you know, he wrote this but he also wrote another one of my favorite films of all time, The Negotiator with Samia Jackson. And I'm just like, Gerard, man, why you got black people just dying like this in the blue? You could have, you know, toned it back. You know, just a little bit. They got KKK in here just rolling down the street with assault rifles, you know, in the back of the truck pointing at other people, going to black people just, you know, trying to shoot them up in the shop. Black people having to defend themselves, you know what I'm saying? And that was nice. That was cool. And Dmitri and his gang, you know, they're going to save the day. It's just basically the white people are the racist or the government. They mad that black people are not murdering each other and they can't spread this propaganda. So they just like, okay, we got to sell this. We're going to send in our own troops and sell propaganda. Dmitri and his gang of folks just like, hey man, this is bullshit. You know, we got to go in there and save the day. Who are, you know what I'm saying? Let's get all our guns and, you know, and go in there and protect the neighborhood. Black power, black empowerment. Yeah. You know, we come together. Great. That's what I want to see. And then I was just getting excited or whatever. And, you know, they did go in there and save the day, but there were just too many black people to just die for no damn reason. I mean, they had apartment building. It was like at least 20 floors and one group of people that we were supposed to root for was on the 14th floor. Hey, they on the 14th floor, going on floor by floor by floor just killing people. You know, I'll be there. You know, you got some time. So it's just some people dressed up, man, going four by four, going floor by floor kicking down black people and brand people's doors, but most black black people and just shooting them up in their homes. You know what I'm saying? That's just effing disgusting. And I'm just sitting here like, what the hell, man? I don't want to see this crap. I don't want to see this. Yeah. It was some black people that did get some revenge him in there and stabbing the next one. Who, who, who and all that good stuff. I was sitting there just like, okay, I was pumped. I'm just like, there's a bunch of BS. When is moving on the end? You know, I'm saying like, I'm not feeling this at all. I do not want to see black people get the ass kicked, especially if this is not or, well, I'm sending a real list of movies. Man, white things are going I wouldn't be surprised if this actually happened one day in 10, 20 years. I just wouldn't. I hope it don't. But at the same time, I want to say this is just a movie, but is it just a movie because I just like the climate right now in the real world is very tense. It's ridiculous. It's getting worse. You know, you know, they could have made this movie to just, you know, intensify that even more to where I'm in the theater upset mad, like walking out the theater stupid white people. They're going right there. They're going right there. He could be one. You know what I'm saying? So I'm not going to let the movie manipulate me anything like that, play with my mind and all that. And don't let it do that to you either, even though this does have a lot of time with the real world especially what's going on right now. But I mean my expectations for this film was mediocre. The characters was decent. The setup was nice. We could have, you know, there was some nice revenge that black people got. But overall I really just did not care for just seeing black people getting slaughtered like that. You know what I'm saying? There was one part where they really made a team of black Avengers in the hood to go save the day and they just got mowed down by a bunch of drones. I'm like, man what the hell is this? It's just like kind of in black pants or how they kind of dangle the black revolution in your face and they snatch it away like you scorpion of Mortal Kombat. Get over here. You know what I'm saying? But I mean it was entertaining but it's nothing that I really want to see again you know if I were to rate the first purge out of a one out of ten I'm gonna give it a five out of ten yes a five out of ten. But guys, that is just my spoilery opinion for the first purge. What did you think? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Did it turn you on? Did it turn you off? 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