Months ago when Netflix announced they were doing a film with Will Smith I was excited. Then that Death Note movie happened. let's just say I lost a little confidence in Netflix. But I did not lose hope when I heard David Ayers was directing that calmed my nerves then the trailer came out and I had questions. Luckily the answers came the other day while watching Bright. Bright gives a world where the tales of fantasy like elves, orcs, magic etc are in our modern time. They don’t go into details so that gives leeway for more storytelling and I appreciate that. Will Smith plays Daryl Ward a very tired LAPD officer with 5 years left to get his pension. All he has to do is survive which is pretty difficult since he just survived being shot by an orc with a shotgun. His partner is Nick Jakoby played by Joel Edgerton (the Gift) he is the only orc in the LAPD. Daryl like most of the Humans in the film do not like orcs. It gives a social commentary on
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