A GREAT CONCEPT FOR A FRANCHISE & A SOLID SCI-FI THRILLER

Rating: 7/10 (12 December 2019)

I love the Purge Franchise & my favourite is "The First Purge 2018" the Blaxploitation prequel but each entry is very good in their own way.
This one is the film that started it all, we have a great scary & exciting concept with a solid cast, here we get the always good & intense Ethan Hawke as the main lead as he stars as an ordinary family man getting ready to lock up for the scary night ahead.
This is an intense home invasion style Thriller with an old school siege feel, it feels low-budget & very B-movie but in a great way, like the type of indie type that John Carpenter may have made in the 70's abit "Assault on precinct 13" in it's low-key & cheap approach with it being set in one location & a it's small cast.
Ethan Hawke is excellent & intense as James Sandin the dad of the house they are holed up in, we also have the excellent Lena Heady as his wife Mary & the two teens Charlie & Zoey, all well cast.
A cool standout character is the homeless bloody stranger who ends up at the Sandin's house wanting help, he's played by the good Edwin Hodge & becomes a good unlikely hero of the film.
The purge night starts & the atmosphere of dread is present & everything goes wrong when "The Stranger" is let in to the family home, a deadly siege is commenced on the house it becomes a fight to survive the night!!!
The Purge is a very good intense survival Thriller & the excellent franchise only gets better from this fantastic first film.
Check out "The First Purge" from 2018 for the best of the franchise in my opinion but it's a great Franchise.