Bright is certainly an attractive prospect given the talent involved, but Ayer's aggressive and ultramasculine perspective feels tired and, perhaps, outdated.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 16, 2022

Bright is dedicated to using promising ideas in the least imaginative ways possible.

| Apr 13, 2021

It has a great premise, but execution is extraordinarily clumsy. It is far from the worst film of the year as many have said, but it isn't a magnificent, enlightened, and socially conscious piece of cinema it pretends to be either.

| Mar 9, 2021

There is much left to be desired here.

| Feb 2, 2021

Incredibly derivative and practically unwatchable.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Even through its narrow plot and lack of inventiveness, Bright still manages to be just entertaining and striking enough to stand on its own as a showy, harsh action romp. Expect no surprises, though.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 24, 2019

There's a clunkiness to Bright; this awkward and misshapen quality that is corny and hard to swallow but something about crime being intertwined with fantasy and prejudice works really well in today's day and age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2019

They end up drawing a lot of attention to the questionable design of the creatures, to the point that I was almost waiting for the actors to laugh. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 2, 2019

'Bright' may not be perfect. It may be "just" one more blockbuster whose only vocation is to offer two hours of pure and hard amusement. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 2, 2019

Bright feels like an ambitious experiment with a noble subtext, which could easily have been made with entirely human characters. Perhaps then it might have felt less laboured and contrived.

| Jul 29, 2019

BRIGHT has issues and does get mired in some narrative and pacing issues, but overall this is a film that is far more fun and enjoyable than half of the movies released in theaters in 2017. That alone makes it a success.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 24, 2019

A pretty straight retread of Ayer's previous gang-banging work -- even recycling the absolute worst bit of Training Day.

| Apr 16, 2019

Bright is an absurd and dump movie. But it's also a fun attempt to modernize fantasy tropes with buddy cop comedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 26, 2019

...there's a bunch of shooting and stabbing, explosions, and general bloodiness. It's all very dark (literally) and -- I imagine for the non-geeky -- Bright is as hard to follow as it is to see.

| Original Score: D | Jan 13, 2019

Bright succeeds with its ideas but fails with its execution.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 21, 2018

is a hybrid story -- urban fantasy with social commentary -- in which its differents parts never fit together and that never decides which way to go. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 10, 2018

Bright is a flat, generic action film lacking in suspense with a racial allegory that is as off the mark as one can get.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 30, 2018

It's perfectly happy in being a big budgeted action flick... but it doesn't have the goofy swagger of Men in Black, nor the grittiness of End of Watch, and ends up just wallowing without saying much.

| Aug 28, 2018

Even with an interesting premise, the film never fully capitalizes on its potential and we're left with nothing but a boring film.

| Aug 26, 2018

This movie has heart, promise from the very beginning, well-delivered dialogue and stellar, emotional performances from Smith and Edgerton, with laugh-out-loud lines thrown in for sometimes-needed comic relief.

| Aug 26, 2018