This ludicrously profitable franchise took audiences by surprise with its upfront mix of politics and violence, but the time-jumping third movie also demonstrated the limitations of the concept. Hence this fourth entry goes the prequel route, taking us back to the night of the first 'experiment' on Staten Island. Like the night in question, the film proves to be a slow burner, and whilst it retains the popular elements of the previous entries, it does feel thinner, with the scenario and characters coming across as less developed and the action less intense (the influence of The Raid and John Wick is felt here). James DeMonaco writes but does not direct this chapter, yet this should have been the movie that really went for the political arguments and the reactions of the regular people caught up in The Purge, but - unlike the unfortunate guy on the stone steps - it does not really catch fire.
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