Bright
Netflix | Release Date: December 22, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
10
Negative:
14
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60
The GuardianSteve RoseDec 20, 2017
For all its flaws, Bright is still a headlong leap into a bracingly different new world. Cinema could do with more of that. Read full review
59
The VergeBryan BishopDec 21, 2017
Bright is a series of disconnected action vignettes that work as standalone sequences, but don’t hang together in any kind of meaningful way. It’s impossible to not think of Suicide Squad’s similar failings as Bright barrels from one dark, noisy scene to the next. Read full review
42
UproxxAmy NicholsonDec 27, 2017
Bright has brief jolts of life. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeDec 22, 2017
Bright gestures vaguely at an allegory about police brutality and race, which may have been more impactful in the original script. It’s hard to tell. For his part, Landis has largely disowned the final product, which buries some glimmers of interesting ideas under a thick layer of adolescent tough-guy posturing. Read full review
40
We Got This Covered Hayden MearsDec 27, 2017
It’s a flawed, frustrating film made even more lackluster by its failure to explore its own weighty themes and its apparent refusal to connect those themes to its story and characters. Read full review
40
EmpireJames DyerDec 21, 2017
There are sparks of solid action amidst the confusion, but Max Landis’ script contains too much stilted dialogue to properly ignite. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 21, 2017
Like most aspects of the film’s mythology, the whole Bright business feels like the non-brainwave of a random plot generator – a will-this-do device Landis barely integrates into his wider story. As a choice for the film’s title, it’s singular, but silly. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaDec 20, 2017
Bright turns out to be more interested in its mythrilpunk world-building than any kind of social commentary, which is a good thing, because while it is so-so at the former (the plot holes in this thing), it is clearly out of its depth with the latter. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayDec 20, 2017
Ultimately, the biggest problem with Bright is that it squeezes nudity, profanity and blood into the kind of dopey adventure that should be aimed more at adolescents — right down to its simplistic lessons about tolerance. Read full review
40
Total FilmJosh WinningDec 20, 2017
Neither a satisfying treaty on diversity and 'race' wars, nor a fulfilling fantasy, it derails at the end of the first act with a confusing moment of anti-heroism, and never recovers. Read full review
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