My bright review

 My bright review 

Oh, look at how the mighty has fallen. I mean July use to be Will Smith Day now he's making movies on Netflix what a shame.

Bright: This movie is centered on two cops who live in a world where fairies, Orcs and Elves co-exist with humans. While on patrol they come across a wand that can grant you any wish and of course a lot of people are after it. So, they have to keep the wand from falling in the wrong hands.

I thought this was going to be a Man in Black but with fairy tale creatures boy was I wrong. What annoys me about this movie is that the creatures in this movie are used as an allegory for racism, police brutality and class division. This was wasted because the writers are not telling us anything new about this because we are already aware of this. Doing this is also disingenuous because what are we doing to fix this problem? Having the Orcs replace Black people and the Elves replace White people should bring up interesting questions but the movie doesn’t do it. Questions like are what does it say about Black people to have the Orcs endure our suffering just so that we won’t have to anymore? Is this arrangement enough to make up for all the messed-up things White people have done to us? Are White people OK with not being on top of the food chain?

Another thing we don’t get enough world-building to justify why this world is the way it is. I don’t like that the Orcs and Elves are adapting Black and White stereotypes I mean what’s the point of having these creatures if they don’t have their own culture? This allegory was handled better in District 9 and Zootopia. I say that because the aliens and animals didn’t have to be someone else to get the movie’s point across. I also notice a Dargon or two in this movie that's not problematic? Another thing that hurt this movie is the writing, this movie would have played out differently if the writers didn’t forget about the plot points that were set up in the movie. For example, we were told that only a few people can use the wand so why does everyone want this MacGuffin? The movie also suffers from some cringy lines for example someone said the don't think a magic wand is possible despite the fact that they live among fantasy creatures. Either he's an idiot or this is bad writing. There is one scene where the director tried too hard to make the gang come off as intimating. Why is this movie called bright if it doesn't focus on that? 

Daryl Ward is a wisecracking douchebag. He doesn't have a good working relationship with his partner not because he's an Orc it's because of a incident in the past. What the movie does with him would have been surprising if the movie didn't foreshadow it.    

Nick Jakoby (Daryl partner) is trying to be an upstanding cop. I feel bad for not because the police department is giving him a hard time the Orcs are giving him a hard time for being a cop. This movie sets up a plot point with this character that goes nowhere.           

The one complement I can give this movie is that it's unintentionally funny. Overall, this is one of those movies with an interesting concept but bad execution. 

Rating = Trash