Review of Bright (2017) by Hiakuryu — 22 Dec 2017

I'll be honest this film isn't high art, but what it is is imo is a well done buddy cop action police procedural and if you just turn your brain off, sit back and enjoy the popcorn then you'll have great fun, and that is the biggest metric for me with films. Did I have fun or not?

I rarely expect high art when I'm going to watch a Will Smith movie so I didn't expect one going into this. Also I am factoring price into this as effectively I consider the price of a netflix subscription to be a sunk cost already so it's effectively free imo. So a good fun cop movie but with orcs, elves and magic. Some good jokes, yeah some of the action scenes were a bit weak but after having seen how bad the action sequences were in iron fist I can forgive a lot. I do admit to REALLY loving the police procedural/buddy cop movie genres though so I will forgive a lot. So I'd say on a quiet night during the holidays when you're zoning out after too big of a Christmas dinner this is a good enough distraction for a couple of hours.