So I finally watched Bright on Netflix. It was meh. Kept waiting for the movie to take off at any point but it doesn’t – a real drag to watch. And I have a problem with some of the decision making being done in the movie, not even sure if they can be considered plot holes at this point.

For one thing, a lot of the bad guys in the movie are in a mad scramble for the wand. Why? It was established early on that only 1 out of a thousand could wield it, and failing to control it would mean certain death. What kind of moron would bet on those kind of odds?

Poison, the gang leader stuck in a wheelchair, thinks it can help him walk again. How? Is he a Bright? Is there a certain approach to determine if one is even a Bright? Short of having all his gangsters touch the wand one by one and dying? Nope! But he’ll sic his entire gang on police officer Ward and his orc partner, Jakoby, just to get his hands on it.

Another thing. In the middle of the movie, Jakoby talks about an ancient orc tradition of signifying an orc as a brave individual – they call it being blooded. I’ve imagined it as a huge gathering, kinda like how the Rebel Alliance stood in attention as Luke Skywalker and Han Solo got their medals from Princess Leia. So I had a good laugh when Jakoby finally gets blooded in the end, and it’s just 5 orcs in a street raising their hands at him.

That’s all? What a letdown. How does that even work? Will those 5 orcs blab and network throughout the orc ghettos and tell everyone they know that Jakoby is now a blooded Orc? Maybe they have a social media platform that they can blast the news from: Faceblorc?