The concept of the Purge films — in the near-future, a cadre of reactionary one-percenters (The New Founding Fathers of America) have instituted an annual Purge Night during which all crime is legal as a means of economic revival through the ritual extermination of America's underclass — has always seemed like a great premise in search of someone who could really exploit its potent cultural and political undercurrents.
After three attempts, however, it's beginning to look like series creator, writer-director James DeMonaco, is not that person.