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The First Purge
MEANRANK
49/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5336
- IMDb #5493
- Google retired #3670
- Rotten Tomatoes #4209
- Metacritic #4137
- Letterboxd #5243
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3552
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5003
- Metacritic Critics #3000
- Metacritic Audience #4856
- Criticker #3925
- Douban #2587
- Kinopoisk #5378
- AlloCiné #4630
- Trakt #4490
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 23, highest is Trakt on 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →To push a controversial social experiment, the government initiates the first annual "Purge" event on Staten Island: a 12-hour period where all crime, including murder, is legal. Residents are offered financial incentives to stay and participate. The experiment is intended to be largely symbolic, but as the night progresses, it is co-opted by sinister forces and escalates into genuine, widespread violence, forcing a woman and her friends to fight for their lives against orchestrated chaos.
Details
- Director
- Gerard McMurray
- Writer
- James DeMonaco
- Released
- 4 July 2018
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $137.1M
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