Netflix's 'Bright' - Review Thread

Lol @ that front page post saying it's the best Netflix original film ever.

Looking terrible. Weird time to greenlight the sequel.

Rotten Tomatoes: 28%

Metacritic: 28

Vanity Fair - Jordan Hoffman

-"Director David Ayer’s latest is just as loud and dumb as Suicide Squad."

Hollywood Reporter - John Defore

-"A genre mashup awkward enough to make 'Cowboys & Aliens' look like a stroke of genius."

Collider - Vinnie Mancuso

-"A Big, Loud Faerie Tale That Loves Bullets More Than Magic"

Variety - Peter Debruge

-"“Bright” is the best Netflix original movie to date."

The Wrap - Todd Gilchrist

-"Will Smith Struggles in Astoundingly Bad New Sci-Fi Movie."

Indiewire - David Erlich

-"Netflix’s First Blockbuster Is the Worst Movie of 2017"

IGN - David Griffin

-"Netflix used their $90 million dollar budget to make a visually striking film.".

LA Times - Noel Murray

-"Netflix gets epic with Will Smith's fantasy-action thriller 'Bright,' but the result is less than thrilling".

Telegraph - Tim Robey

-"Netflix's overcooked genre mash-up."

Associated Press - Mark Kennedy

-"'Bright' is when Harry Potter vomits on a cop flick".

Forbes - Scott Mendelson

-"Netflix's 'Bright' Is So Bad It's A Holiday Gift To Hollywood."

The Verge - Bryan Bishop

-"Bright proves that Netflix can do blockbusters — but most blockbusters aren’t that exciting"

Playlist - Rodrigo Perez

-"Bright’ Is An Abysmal Mash-Up Of ‘Legend Of Zelda’ & ‘Training Day’

Guardian - Steve Rose

-"Will Smith's sci-fi is a true original ... for better or worse"

Vulture - Emily Yoshida

-"Bright Is an Amusing Genre-Bend, But a Mess in Just About Every Other Way"

Gizmodo - Germain Lussier

-"The Orc Cop Movie Bright Messily Drags Tolkien Into the Modern Age"

Release Date:

December 22, 2017

Starring:

• Will Smith
• Joel Edgarton
• Noomi Rapace
• Edgar Ramírez
• Lucy Fry
• Jay Hernandez
• Ike Barinholtz
• Veronica Ngo

Description:

Set in a world where mystical creatures live side by side with humans. A human cop is forced to work with an Orc to find a weapon everyone is prepared to kill for.

Director:

David Ayer

Writer:

Max Landis

Submitted December 21, 2017 at 08:18AM by BunyipPouch http://ift.tt/2BUmg9x