This movie was produced far back in 2017, about 4 months ago. Not too long, but enough to ask this; You haven't watched Bright? Where on earth have you been?
I'd watched it over and over again and decided to make a review.
It was directed by David Ayer, and the music was composed by Dave Sardy and Junkie XL.
I'm sorry, I need to type out the lyrics, there was no way I could play the music for you while reading. But, you can play something in your head and mine along.
"We're broken people now, we're burning out, so cold I'm bleeding now, now."
The world was filled with different races. Humans weren't the only ones living in it. There were orcs, elves and even ferries.
If you are finding this strange, you shouldn't be, I'm here to make you watch this if you haven't.
Now, let's watch Bright.
Casts
Will Smith as Ward
He's human and a detective. Ward was shot by an orc. Luckily, for him, he survived. His partner was with him the day he was shot, the partner chased after the shooter but couldn't get him. Rumour has it that he knows about the shooting. Ward's partner is an Orc.
Joel Edgerton as Jakoby
Ward's partner. He was the only detective in his race, hence making it difficult for him. The humans didn't like the fact that he was a detective, especially after discovering who shot Ward. Jacoby's race didn't like him too, they believed he chose the humans over them.
The Orcs were basically the bad guys in the city, with Jacoby having to arrest most of them everyday, you can tell why life became terrible for him.
Why the title is Bright
According to the movie, a bright is someone with magical powers. They become more powerful when they are with a magic wand.
A magic wand? Yes! It's more like a weapon. It shines brightly when being used. There's nothing this wand can't do. Everyone in the city knows this, and every one of them wants to get it. Everybody wants to be powerful, they want the good things of life, and the wand could get them.
Only a little percentage of humans are brights. In fact one out of a million of them can be brights. Most brights are Elves.
Elves are another species living in the city. They are known to be dangerous too, since more of them are brights.
Ward and Jacoby were given a street to patrol. There mission was to hunt the bad guys. They got to a neighbourhood and noticed something strange, they got to a particular building and saw a dead bright. Well, they thought she was dead.
The dead bright
Lucy Fry as Tikka
Tikka is a bright, an elf. She was in the building when Ward and his partner came in. She tried escaping but was caught. She was seen with a wand. Tikka killed the bright.
Noomy Rapace as Lielah
Leilah was the owner of the wand, she was deadly. Getting her wand back means trouble to the world. And she did everything she could to get it back. She gave her wand out for Tikka to be killed, a mistake she later regretted.
The magic task force
Their Job was to erase every form of magic. So, they capture wands and brights.
So far, their current mission was to capture Leila and her wand.
Ward and Jacoby had to take Tikka along with them. Soon, they became well known. Everyone got to find out they were in possession of a wand and every rich and bad guys in the city wants it.
Leilah had to kill to get her wand, every obstacle on her way was cleared.
The magic task force were focused on getting Leilah and her wand. But it seems, she was always one step farther.
Ward, Jacoby and Tikka were wanted, and they were always on the run trying to keep the wand safe, or better still preventing it from getting to the wrong hands.
The Orcs were after them, the gangsters couldn't wait to get their hands on them. The magic task force were hoping they get to them first. Leilah and her task force were chasing after them.
Finally, Ward killed and erased Leilah with the wand. Yes! He's a bright too. This revelation was shown when Leilah got to them, they would have all been killed if Ward hadn't used the wand. Well, thanks to their stars, it worked.
That's basically what happened in summary. Interesting right?
Now, let's play a song, it was played at the end of the movie. Thanks to Dave Sardy and Junkie XL.
"I'm trying to find home, a place where I can go, to take this off my shoulders, someone take me home.
Some things didn't add up
This is one of the greatest movie I've watched so far but some things just didn't add up.
Okay, the magic task force interviewed a member of the shield of light. He revealed that a dark Lord is coming. The way it was specified, it wasn't Leilah. With three magic wands, the dark lord will resurrect.
Member of the shield of light
The movie ended when Leilah was killed. Unless there's an incoming part yet to be released, I'll hold my say. If not, I'm still repeating things just didn't add up.
What next?
Jacoby was killed. Oh! I didn't reveal that earlier. But, Tikka got to resurrect him from the dead, and she became weak afterwards, she almost died.
A bright can use a wand comfortably, why is Tikka's own different when she used it to resurrect? Unless, they meant the wand didn't make her very weak, something else did. Or using the wand to resurrect causes weakness which wasn't specified. Well, they didn't reveal that either.
Tikka using the magic wand
Bright is a great movie, and if you haven't watch it, do that now. My review could only do little. You just need to watch it.
All images on this post are screenshots from the movie.
Thanks for watching.
Till next time..