Bright
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In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.
What critics thought
Critics were nearly unanimous in panning Bright, targeting its clumsy social commentary, incoherent action, and a fantasy-cop-drama mashup that never coheres into anything satisfying. A small minority pushed back against the pile-on, arguing the film was merely mediocre rather than catastrophic — but that dissent was the exception, not the rule.
“Bright is basically a tired buddy-cop movie dressed up in bizarre trappings ... It doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's not nearly as self-deprecating and funny as it needed to be.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“This combo of gritty cop procedural and fantasy is a dark, dank, dumb-as-hell mess.”
David Fear·Rolling Stone
“There's boring, there's bad, and then there's Bright ... from the director of Suicide Squad and the writer of Victor Frankenstein comes a fresh slice of hell that somehow represents new lows for them both—a dull and painfully derivative ordeal that often feels like it was made just to put those earlier misfires into perspective.”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
Genres
Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Cast & Crew
David AyerDirector
Will SmithDaryl Ward
Joel EdgertonNick Jakoby
Lucy FryTikka
Noomi RapaceLeilah
Edgar RamírezKandomere
Ike BarinholtzPollard
Veronica NgôTien
Alex MerazSerafin
Happy AndersonMontehugh
Dawn OlivieriSherri Ward
Matt GeraldHicks
Margaret ChoSergeant Ching
Max LandisWriter
Roman VasyanovCinematographyBright
In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.
What critics thought
Critics were nearly unanimous in panning Bright, targeting its clumsy social commentary, incoherent action, and a fantasy-cop-drama mashup that never coheres into anything satisfying. A small minority pushed back against the pile-on, arguing the film was merely mediocre rather than catastrophic — but that dissent was the exception, not the rule.
“Bright is basically a tired buddy-cop movie dressed up in bizarre trappings ... It doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's not nearly as self-deprecating and funny as it needed to be.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“This combo of gritty cop procedural and fantasy is a dark, dank, dumb-as-hell mess.”
David Fear·Rolling Stone
“There's boring, there's bad, and then there's Bright ... from the director of Suicide Squad and the writer of Victor Frankenstein comes a fresh slice of hell that somehow represents new lows for them both—a dull and painfully derivative ordeal that often feels like it was made just to put those earlier misfires into perspective.”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
Genres
Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Cast & Crew
David AyerDirectorWill SmithDaryl WardJoel EdgertonNick JakobyLucy FryTikkaNoomi RapaceLeilahEdgar RamírezKandomereIke BarinholtzPollardVeronica NgôTienAlex MerazSerafinHappy AndersonMontehughDawn OlivieriSherri WardMatt GeraldHicksMargaret ChoSergeant ChingMax LandisWriterRoman VasyanovCinematographyStream