Bright: The mythological mystery

Bright, a classic cop duo that defeats evil with a slight twist. Famous actor Will Smith and director David Ayer decided to take a leap into uncharted grounds. They took an action packed cop film and decided to add mystical creatures like fairies, orcs and elves. This results in a huge clash between all the species clashing causing violence and poverty across the city.

Writer Max Landis decides to dive right into the movie with the lack of back story of how this human and mythological creature world came to be. All the audience knows is that a couple thousand of years of go, some kind of race war was fought and magic is what brought them together. The audience is only allowed to see the different sections of Los Angeles that the elves and orc occupy. All the audience is faced with is a city littered with racism and police brutality. 

From the start the audience is introduced in police brutally and the hatred between races. Somehow the main characters Daryl Ward (Will Smith), a human and his partner Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), an Orc. Daryl is resentful towards his partner Nick only on the point of that he is an orc. This human and orc duo creates a lot of attention towards them and builds a lot of tension between the two.

Another part of the movie that leaves the audience scratching their heads is the dark lord. This brings it back to the lack of story development. The whole movie is based off of the point of trying to keep magic out of the bad peoples hands. There are federal magic task forces with the job of hunting down wands. If bad people get there hands on the wands they can harness the wands power and summon the dark lord. The audience is left spinning around trying to follow the story of the movie, while trying to piece together the backstory.

All though the movie is lackluster in plot development, it does not fall short in cinematography. The movies action scenes are dense and filled with good camera placement, lighting, and special effects. The action scenes leave the audience feeling immersed in the fighting and helps create tension. Slow motion, cuts, and transition leave the audience on edge and help pick up for the lack of plot development.

While Bright is filled with extravagant action scenes, it is missing plot and character development. The audience is left teetering between confusion and immersion. This is definitely not the worst movie put out by Mr. Smith and Mr. Ayer, but it is certainly not the best. Bright has it strong points through out the movie and it also has its weak parts throughout the movie, but when it comes to the end, we are still left scratching our heads.