"The Forever Purge" gets politically loaded, effectively blunt franchise back on track
The Forever Purge (2021) Another Fourth of July, another “Purge” movie. This franchise has always been a daring and interesting one — and they have always been politically loaded and effectively blunt. Once the fascinating concept of the 2013 original film recalibrated itself, redirecting the focus more on the have-nots in the next installments allowed these movies to become the rare series that kept getting better (almost) with age. Since 2016’s scarily prescient “The Purge: Election Year,” all subtlety has been throw out the window to discuss America’s ideological divide, and that confrontational approach continued with 2018’s sometimes incendiary but mostly clunky and superfluous “The First Purge.” The quality of the series gets put back on track with the fifth and allegedly final entry, “The Forever Purge.” Wonders never cease that this is a pretty potent and still close-to-home piece of violent entertainment that speaks its mind, like a loud and proud American. You know...