In fact, this spinoff effectively tells the same story as the original film - mean sexy human and sweet but scary-looking orc team up to protect a vulnerable elf lady from the pointy-eared fundamentalist “Infernis” who need her magic wand to summon the Dark Lord - only half a world away, 150 years before, and 40 minutes faster.
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Scripted by prolific anime writer Michiko Yokote (whose credits stretch back as far as “Cowboy Bebop” and 1990’s “Patlabor: The TV Series”), “Samurai Soul” begins with the curious assumption that people remember the “Bright” mythology, only to reaffirm how flimsy it was by neglecting to expand upon it in any significant way. Ted Sarandos and Netflix's Disingenuous Defense of Dave Chappelle 'Mayor Pete' Review: Vérité Doc Offers a Breezy Look Inside Pete Buttigieg's Historic 2020 Campaign
As entertainment giants continue to stretch their pre-existing IP in every possible direction - ubiquity and volume replacing enthusiasm and quality as the most important metrics - this 19th century-set adventure ironically feels like a more telling indication of where Netflix is heading next than “Bright” itself ever did. That also makes Kyōhei Ishiguro’s past-tense spinoff a lucid (if unexciting) glimpse at the future to which so many of us have subscribed.
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And yet 11 million subscribers who clicked on something they managed to tolerate for at least the length of a movie trailer can’t be wrong, thus inspiring Netflix to leverage its multi-tentacled worldwide content machine in a way that allows the streamer to squeeze water from a stone without further tarnishing its brand or embarrassing Will Smith.Īt the risk of evoking a certain Dril tweet, you almost gotta hand it to them for trying “ Bright: Samurai Soul” may be a deeply mediocre riff on a modern fantasy so bad it made “movie magic” feel like a contradiction in terms, but that still makes it. One hopes that any other studio on Earth might have come to the self-evident conclusion that “what if the Rampart scandal, but magic?” wasn’t a premise capable of supporting the next “Star Wars” (despite screenwriter Max Landis’ outspoken faith in the franchise potential of his “Bright”).
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