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8/10 Bright is an urgent, richly woven film about one bad night in Los Angeles anchored by two sure-handed lead actors.
In the world of Bright, orcs, elves and fairies have existed alongside humans since the age of magic thousands of years ago. Daryl Ward (Will Smith), a street cop five years away from his pension, is saddled with Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton), the world’s first orcish police officer, for a partner. On a routine call to a nasty neighborhood, they find a live bomb — a magic wand, artifacts so rare and so dangerous to use they’d long been thought extinct. In the hands of a “bright,” or magic-adept person, the wand’s power is limitless, and the officers Ward and Jakoby call in for backup immediately turn on them when they realize how much they stand to gain from it. They spend the night on the run from the police, human gangs, orcish gangs and the inferni, a cult of elves who want to use the wand to resurrect the dark lord.
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