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Bright (2017)

Bright is a film about a cop who is forced to work with the diversity hire Orc in a world where magic and high fantasy races all live together in disharmony.

David Ayer does a decent job directing this film. There really isn't any problem with angles or choices in direction but with the writing itself. There are some memorable shots and then there are the opening scenes where it shows you the history of the world through oddly cartoonish graffiti. One thing that was really off-putting was the flow of the film. Oh and the elves...they were weird.

Will Smith plays a disgruntled and abusive-towards-farries cop who treats the orc population like the way society typically show cops treating African-Americans. He even says the mantra of "black lives don't matter" when referring to farries. It's an odd choice and lands in the opposite intention than let's say Black Panther did.

I like Joel Edgerton, that being said his Orc game is kind of lacking from the dungeons and dragons aspect. Maybe I should just say that this isn't dungeons and dragons, but then again they're using a lot of races from it.

Edgar Ramirez is also in this film as an elf. He's kind of an unrecognizable actor but he was in The Bourne Ultimatum and a pretty decent actor. He was forgettable in this movie though, unfortunately.

Result: D- (I literally fell asleep during the second half of this movie. I had to go back and rewatch.)

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