I've seen all of these movies in order, except the newest one, "The Forever Purge" however, I do plan to watch it to see if it's as big of a pile of hot garbage as this movie is.
The last movie was very pushy on the race factor. Which is ridiculous. There were military contractors with national flags, confederate battle flags, and "white power" on their uniforms. There was no reason for it, they just threw it in there. It literally didn't come in to play AT ALL.
This movie was even worse race bait wise. We have a drug dealer turned hero, who apparently is John Rambo incarnate. The main female says that he spends the rest of the year killing people, and basically plays him as nothing but a killer/gangster, but somehow he's beloved by all and ends up being the hero.
They dress these military contractors as Nazis, and KKK members while the push through these predominantly black neighborhoods, wiping people out, and it's just pushing a racist agenda. It's honestly just annoying at this point.
If they were to have pushed the "poor vs rich" idea rather than "black vs white" this would have honestly been a great movie! Black people aren't the only people in this country who are poor, and white people aren't the only people in this country who are rich! Alot of us struggle, and I could have related more, had their not been a racist agenda, rather a classist one!
The last movie had whites, blacks, and Latino main characters, and it was much better because at that point, it wasn't singling anyone out, it included everyone on both sides of the fight.
This movie had 98% white people killing 100% black people (Skeletor did kill one Asian man, other than that, all black people)
I don't understand why we have to push division so hard in movies when it doesn't have to be. All it does is give people more ideas that these people hate those people and vis versa.
I'm in the mindset where everyone is free game, I don't care who the characters are, I just want a good, non politically biased story that really pulls you in and grips you for the entirety of the film, this film was just purely race focused.
I'm all for strong black leads, but I'm not for dividing us as one people. This movie promotes nothing but division.