Bright Review: 3 Ups & 6 Downs

2. It's Not Weird Enough

This might seem like a weird complaint to make about a movie where a human and an Orc team up to stop an evil dark elf from using a magic wand to summon an ancient evil that will destroy the world...but Bright just isn't weird enough.

When you break it down, the film's throughline is actually very simple: the main plot is pure fantasy nonsense everyone's seen dozens of times before, the action is fairly grounded and subdued for the most part, and it doesn't get truly bonkers in the way it should have.

Clearly Netflix felt that the shell premise was enough of a gamble, and making things any more strange or surreal could've turned off the casual crowd. While it wouldn't be fair to call the film boring or bland, there are times, especially during lengthy exposition dumps, where it feels practically ordinary.