Unashamedly sold by all concerned as police procedural meets The Lord Of The Rings, Bright delivers on that promise and is oddly entertaining. The world-building is very effective from the outset in what is effectively a gritty update of Alien Nation, even if here the issues of race are handled bluntly and the narrative holds no real surprises within its genre-bound mismatched cops scenario. The effects are solid, but what sells this Netflix production is an on-form Will Smith and a wonderfully-handled performance by Joel Edgerton underneath the prosthetics as the force's first Orc policeman. Ayer may be on familiar territory here, but Bright is delivered much more effectively than his Suicide Squad, and whilst not world-changing it is entertaining enough.
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