Bright

Bright review: bad storytelling lets down a promising genre mash up

Kicking off Season 4 of Argue the Toss, Drew and Chella review, Bright, the Will Smith vehicle from Netflix.

Bright has divided critics and fans; critics hate it, but audiences kinda love it.  Orcs and elves in modern day L.A.  try to bring  a sprinkle of magic to this buddy cop movie, but the weak story lets it down.

The ATTeam were hoping for a Shadowrun adventure, but instead they got a thin fantasy that left too many unresolved story threads. Not the worst film of the year, but plenty to Argue the Toss about.

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Chella Ramanan
Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.