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"Bright" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 08/22/2018
An L.A. cop is unwillingly teamed up with an Orc rookie and when they stumble across a magic wand during a routine call they become targets for every cop and criminal in the city.
The obvious comparison for Bright is 1980's buddy cop sci-f thriller Alien Nation which was based upon a similar concept, except in this case the aliens are switched for characters from Tolkienesque fantasy mythology. In a nod towards class boundaries, the Orcs represent the underclass while the elves are the super-rich movers and shakers with humans somewhere in between, but while Alien Nation attempted some - albeit clumsy - social commentary, Bright is literally just a chase movie about a magic wand. It's that stupid. In fact, if the script had been a pastiche executed by the likes of Simon Pegg and Edgar …
