 I think we should spend our time just trying to survive this shit. So we got a new Netflix original titled Bright with Will Smith and Joel Edgerton and it looked good. But what did I think about it? Well let's get into it. My name is Brandon Hitaveri and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Bright, a Netflix original. I really do appreciate it. But before we get into review, help your boy out by clicking that subscribe button. Also click the little bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and give me that thumbs up. Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes. Now we have Bright and like I said for like the third time this is a Netflix original. I was really excited about this movie. Of course why because it has Will Smith and I am a big, big, big Will Smith fan. Of course you know Will Smith from Fresh Prince, Bad Boys, Concussion and any other movie that he's come out with. I mean everything he does is freaking fantastic. We also have Joel Edgerton in this movie as well who's been in The Gift, Black Mask and Warrior. Warrior is a fantastic movie I believe that came out in 2011 about MMA or UFC fighting. It's a very underrated film. If you haven't seen that film, I strongly recommend that you do see it. But this is being directed by David Ayer. David Ayer directed Street Kings, End of Watch which I have seen and I own that on Blu-ray. I love that movie. And he also did Suicide Squad which I did not love. I pretty much despise that movie. That was not a good movie at all to me. But this is I believe the second time that Will Smith and David Ayer are working together again on the film. They kind of know how each other works so that always makes it better for a picture in my opinion. This movie is being written by Max Landis. Kind of an outlandish character if you ask me but not out of me that in the bad way. He wrote Chronicle and he also wrote American Ultra and those are two films that I did enjoy as well. I really did like Chronicle more than American Ultra but you really can't compare those films at all. They're two completely different films but both of those films do stand out completely different from any other Hollywood production. The budget behind this movie is $90 million and that makes this movie the most expensive Netflix movie to date. And actually there was a bidding war for this movie. I believe Warner Brothers was closest to grabbing it for the distribution but David Ayer decided to go with Netflix when my research was based because he wanted to have work creative control during the directing and I can't blame him for that because this is a very peculiar film in a good way. I will say that. And actually Max Landis who wrote this he actually wrote the screenplay in the script for David Ayer. He said that he wanted David Ayer to direct this movie. He wrote it for him and Max Landis sold the script for $3.5 million and Max Landis actually turned down an extra million so he could have got $4.5 million for this but he turned down an extra million because he really wanted David Ayer to direct this movie. And Max Landis also said that this movie is kind of like his Star Wars movie and that he and David Ayer really compares this to End of Watch. And if you've seen End of Watch and you've seen Bright which we're talking about you really can't see the similarities as far as the directing style and the tone is concerned. I don't know if this is like an official tagline or like a fan made it up but I kept seeing somewhere that this was like Bad Boys and Mordor and I could not agree with that more because this movie is a mixture of Bad Boys plus Lord of the Rings and Mordor is a place in Lord of the Rings if you haven't seen that franchise and I recommend you do. But not only is it Bad Boys and Lord of the Rings but to me it also has a little bit of running scared mixed in there as well. The 2000, I can't remember if it was 2008 or 2012, I'm sorry I didn't look that up. The one that started in Paul Walker because there is a Richard Pryor movie that came out in the 80s that's called Running Scared as well. You know we don't want to get those films mixed up. But what this movie is about is Will Smith is a cop by the name of Ward a human and Joe Edgerton's character is a cop his partner as well and he's an orc and you know Orc's Lord of the Rings and then you also have elves as well and within the partnership you know Joe Edgerton is happy to be a cop he's happy to be Will Smith's partner and Will Smith is Ward is happy to be a cop as well but he really is not fond of having Joe Edgerton and Orc as his partner and kind of just wants to get away you know from him if he possibly can. And in this movie I mean it's on Netflix you can watch it now if you have Netflix I'm not going to spoil it heavy there may be some slight spoilers towards the end of the view but I will give you plenty of time and you know let you know when I'm going to do that. But what it's about is that they're just not having a buddy cop movie and they kind of just stumble on a bunch of magic and you know and in this movie there's a lot of magic and mysticism and fantasy going around and they find this magic weapon this one that grants though the beholder the wielder pretty much infinite power and you know everybody whether they're a human whether they're orc whether they're an elf a regular civilian a policeman a sheriff FBI or their version of the FBI everybody's just trying to get their hand on this weapon or whatever and Will Smith Ward and Jacoby who's being played by Joe Edgerton the his partner or whatever they're in the middle of it and this experience for me may be slightly different from everybody else because I was I actually saw this movie Thursday night and I'm just not getting to review a sorry and I actually saw it in the theater I was looking up to see it in the theater so I actually got that big screen in that super duper surround sound so with all the chaos and mayhem going around it may pop a lot harder for me and make me like the movie a little bit more than you you know if you're watching it at home and you necessarily don't have the best you know home theater sound system and picture quality you know out there that's available but from the very beginning of this movie I love the way it started I love the scenery I love the imagery I love the contract the cinema target all of that I love the pacing of the movie I love the soundtrack I mean I was bobbing my head I mean this was something that I would not mind buying the soundtrack was great we get to see Will Smith being himself and that's not a bad thing because Will Smith does play himself in a lot of his movies but that is not a bad thing because he just has all that charisma and gala whatever and he can you know just do any role or whatever he's a really charming guy and he's just great on screen he has a very strong presence and he's very funny as well and he really does deliver the lines and he really does deliver the jokes in this movie and it's just funny and it's just and it's just great to see everything because I mean this is a fantasy science fiction magical extravaganza in modern day age excuse me and we get to see everybody you know engrossed into that but tied into the world that we know today or whatever so I mean he's coming out in his front yard or whatever try to get rid of pests and he has you know some people over here neighbors you know just living their lives bumping their music having a good time not bothering anybody but instead of him trying to get squirrels away from his his house of birds or bees or any pets he has to get away magical fairies or whatever and it's just kind of funny the way they integrated all that in and just kind of made just fantastical movie out of all of it and it just kind of flowed smoothly I mean none of it was abrupt or abstract or stood out I mean it looked like it was a belong there and so I mean I just really have to give Max Landis the writer and David air the director for able to you know put all that together and make it seem like something real you know that we all today in the real world can be a part of now the orcs are completely different from the humans of course and the elves are too you pretty much know how they are you know if you've seen the Lord of the Rings but if you if you haven't they kind of give they kind of break it down for you here of course we know who humans are the elves are really snobby and they're perceived as very snobby and rich and kind of run the world orcs are kind of perceived as like the troublemakers and you know the thugs of the community and you know we hear these stereotypes all the time in real life where it talks about black people and so in me as a black man a black American African-American you know that you know kind of just set off an exclamation point you know inside of me I wasn't offended or anything a friend of mine you know kind of said they may have been just a little bit but you know I didn't take it that way because I'm not just going to dive into the stereotypes because I know how I am I know how my people are I'm just seeing how they was trying to kind of compare stereotypes to real life or whatever some of it was on point some of it was not you know but I really did enjoy all of it I talked about what Smith and how funny it was but some you know they really did have a great mixture of the movie being very funny with his jokes being perfectly timed and also the violence I mean there was a lot of violence in this movie a lot of people getting blown up getting stabbed getting shot in the face all kinds of stuff in different sceneries car chases dog chases things like that shootouts gunfights all that good stuff I mean I'm really I was really enjoying all of it I mean just taking it all in there's a lot of social commentary which I just mentioned as well and the story of the film I like how that unfolded as well too I've seen this twice now I saw Thursday night and then I came today I'm recording this Saturday night right now and I watched it again earlier today I wasn't paying attention too much but I had it in the background I was doing some other things on my laptop but it was right there you know and I was watching it earlier today and I really do like the way that the plot unfolded I was able to catch a few things the second time that I missed the first time and I just really liked the lore of everything and how there was this ancient war between humans orcs and elves from 2,000 years ago and some people were on fighting on the wrong side and they're still paying the price and you know still dealing with the repercussions 2,000 years later and I like all that and there is a bunch of prejudice in this movie there's a lot of racism in this movie or species in this movie however you want to say it because you know racism in the real world deals with humans and the human race and humankind but there are different species orcs elves and human beings are different species so some of it is ridiculous but some of it in the way where people have prejudice to a certain character and are very cautious they actually have somewhat of a valid reason to be nervous or whatever because like for for instance the orcs you know they just know for like a fact that the humans are like look orcs they have clan law and they put that above everything else I mean it's just orcs to the day they die they're always going to protect their own so if you have a cop that is an orc like excuse me Joel Edison's character Will Smith's partner if an orc is doing something bad are you really going to take out the orc you know or are you gonna or are you gonna protect the orc because that's your people and you're gonna you know treat your fellow human being police officers as second fiddle and that kept coming up within the film and I like how they put that in there because it just created more tension and thickened the plot as the film progressed on now I talked about how violent is the action is great too that was fantastic I loved all that especially when they came down to these renegade elfs by the by the name of inferny or whatever and when they popped up on the screen or whatever they were not a force to be messed with or whatever it was like kind of like remember when you saw the matrix to come out of 99 and Morpheus played by Lawrence fish room was like in Trinity play was it carry what is I forgot Trinity's name or whatever I was going to say carry Fisher but for some reason I can't think of her name but remember that was explained to Neo or whatever to Keanu Reeves like hey when you see agent you do not engage the agent you do not fight them you run the other way you get out of the matrix you try to escape that is how these renegade inferny elves were portrayed in this movie like whoa you know I mean even if you have a SWAT team you better be careful or whatever because they are quick they are fast they are ruthless they have no regard they have no remorse and they will kill you they may even kill children or whatever in this movie and then it kind of did that off screen which was I think it was smart even though this is rated R but you just run the other way and when these renegade elfs popped on the screen I was like did like everybody remember I saw it in theater so everybody was like oh god damn oh you know gasping back and forth including myself or whatever but you know so I was gonna get to a book but I'm gonna just keep on going as far as the positives are concerned so I talked about the elves the orcs the humans the action the violence the comedy the story of the plot you know all that good stuff they also had something called the shield of light which I liked it as well but towards the end of the film I was like when I was like when I was in the theater I was like man I cannot wait to get home to make a video about this to write about it telling everybody to go see this movie but there was one scene to where Will Smith and Jacobi or war and Jacobi were captured by these orcs and they got the crap beat out of them and they took them until this orcs and this is kind of slight spoilers right here till they're home over their base and they were the one of the king orcs or whatever the the lead bosses or whatever or that street was this kind of like man look you know everything was crazy I wanted to organize my people have some order and to keep the peace you know every month I try to have a party I try to have a celebration you know I get everybody drunk I feed everybody and I just have one rule no guns and you cops messed it up or whatever and doing that scene it kind of you start going down as far as the quality is because at one particular part Will Smith got the living crap kicked out of him I mean just beating down to a bloody pulp and then right after that he's just able to walk away and just shake it off and I was kind of like wait a minute you know what's going on there and kind of like another plot hole that came up early in the film is like the war they're trying everybody's trying to get after this one right and they're in this cop car they just got away from a car somebody chased him in the car with like an automatic weapon just spraying them down right and I love that scene but the one started flying in the car and made the car eject because the wine had a binding spell on it and then could not you know the binding spell made the wine not go the tear away from its original master which is a bright or would have brights or the only people that can you know hold the wine if you know and if you don't if you're not a bright and you try to hold a wine you know you're going to explode and so some people in this movie learn that the hard way and I like the fact that they put that into where there was a binding spell but then right after that that binding spell just went away I mean like it never it didn't it didn't make sense to me unless the owner was just around the corner down the street not too far away I'm just like well okay why are they way over here and then the owner of the elf the renegade the inferny away over here and there's no more binding spell so that was like another inconsistency to me right there and then something else that just kind of turned me off was when the inferny these renegade elves popped up and they're just able to mouse everybody just kick everybody's ass just you know I mean just taking no names blowing the brains or whatever and later I mean seriously later on in the movie when Jacobi and war were engaging them in battle they were able to kind of hang with them just a little bit I'm like wait a minute why are you are why is it these are fernie elves kicking war in Jacobi's butt but they were able just to kill all these other cops earlier with swat teams and things like that were easy but they're kind of struggling towards the end and also the ending it had a lot of action but it was all just a little still anti climatic for me I wanted a little bit more so I was slightly disappointed there and originally I gave the movie like a 7.5 but I'm gonna give it a little bit higher because I learned that there was a sequel already to this movie greenlit before this came out so everything that I would did not see in this movie because I did want to see the big demon raise back or whatever and try to wreck hail on everybody in Los Angeles because this takes place in Los Angeles I did want to see more of the shield of light because there was a character in this movie that was talking about the shield of light so I wanted to see the shield of the light use the magic on these super elves and things like that but if we already have a sequel coming or whatever that makes me like the movie much better um you know because I know it's coming or I hope it's coming but as far as I'm concerned those are my only grires pretty much everything else guys I really did enjoy you know this and I may watch it again since I can watch it home on Netflix now for the third time and I originally I was gonna give it a 7.5 but if I had to write bright out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it an 8 out of 10 yes an 8 out of 10 but guys well don't don't even give a high than that oh no I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give it an 8 out of 10 yeah 8 out of 10 but guys that's just my opinion have you seen bright or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't this fine subscribe to my youtube channel also go to my website check me out there bookmarking and look me up on social media facebook instagram and twitter all that good stuff is at the bottom of the screen and I made it easy by providing a link to 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