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  Review by davidehrlich ½ 48

  There’s boring, there’s bad, and then there’s “Bright,” a movie so profoundly awful that Republicans will probably try to pass it into law over Christmas break. From the director of “Suicide Squad” and the writer of “Victor Frankenstein” comes a fresh slice of hell that somehow represents new lows for them both — a dull and painfully derivative ordeal that that often feels like it was made just to put those earlier misfires into perspective. The only thing more predictable than this high-concept police story is the idea that a year as punishing as 2017 would save the worst for last. At least “The Emoji Movie” owned up to the fact that it was just putting shit on screen; at…

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  Review by Jordan Raup ½ 3

  "I'm going to be honest with you. I don't fuck with no fairies."
  "Fairy lives don't matter today!"
  "Dude, you can't go through elf town!"

  Will Smith says all of these lines with an earnest conviction in Bright, then there's still 1 hour and 45 minutes left.

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ½ 8

  I forgot I watched this 4 days ago but I did and it was the worst mistake of my life.

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  Review by DirkH ★ 7

  Well, it isn't very, is it?

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  Review by matt lynch ★★ 4

  For the sake of argument let's say this takes pains to set up a really imaginative premise/backdrop (it doesn't, but still). Not only does it fail to investigate any of it beyond the most superficial circumstances, but it also populates that world exclusively with stuff cribbed from, like, CONSTANTINE (of which I remain a fan), and fills in the rest with endless, barely competent shootouts and fistfights. It's the most boring version of itself possible.

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  Review by Leon Thomas ½ 4

  Maybe the guy who adamantly defended whitewashing in Hollywood shouldn't write a movie about race.

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ½ 15

  The Letterboxd Era Catch Up 2: The Last Stand

  I'd never heard of Max Landis.

  I came into Bright under the assumption that everyone was already crapping on it because it was made by David Ayer, coming off the back of Suicide Squad, which I've never seen and never will. Even though I quite liked Fury and End of Watch, I could well believe that Suicide Squad could be so awful that people were readily expecting Bright to be unspeakably awful because I've seen Sabotage. And it's one of the worst films I've ever seen.

  Even so, I didn't come into it with any pre-conceived disdain towards it and, to be honest, even if I had have known Landis, I…

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★

  At one point, I stopped taking notes and just wrote "Holy shit."

  More in a review on RE tomorrow.

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  Review by Madelyn 🎃 ½ 1

  Why did Max Landis remake Zootopia?

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  Review by Gonzo ★★★½ 3

  Bright is actually surprisingly good. A real crowd-pleaser too. Audience at the premiere was really into it, probably even more so than any other movie I've seen at the theaters this year.

  Bright is like End of Watch meets District 9 meets The Fifth Element. There's even one character—Tikka, played by Lucy Fry—that's clearly influenced by Milla Jovovich's Leeloo.

  Story takes place over one night. Plot's a bit basic, symbolisms can be a tad too broad and unsubtle, and not all the lines land. The biggest knock, however, is that it meanders in the middle.

  Minor quibbles aside, Bright draws its power from the chemistry between Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. Smith is his usual, energetic self as the world-weary,…

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  Review by Jay ★½ 3

  "im making a suicide squad of directors and screenwriters"

  [viola davis flips open files to reveal david ayer and max landis]

  "the worst of the worst"

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  Review by Keegan ✌🏻 8

  We have 3 contenders for Worst Line Max Landis Has Ever Written:

  1) "You want to be taller or shorter? You want $10 million dollars?"
  2) "That's like a nuclear weapon that grants wishes!"
  3) "They gonna kill you then me, and that's when the stupid shit's gonna start."

  Cast your vote.