Bright: Samurai Soul

Well, I thought this was a very big misstep of a movie. I have not seen something so visually unpleasant and with such a stupid screenplay from Netflix in a long time. Sometimes the fight scenes have some dynamics, and that is when the animation looks good, otherwise the rest of the time they are really awful. The exteriors are lacking some nice draftsmanship and detail because otherwise, everything in the show looks terribly empty and weird, they are almost like fake backdrops, and like this, even the camera rotating and trying to show us different perspectives of the scenes from other angles does not help. It just looks really bad when the characters are in the city and there are others around them because they look like something out of a crappy old game, where the backgrounds and characters absolutely do not match. Simply put, watching this was complete torture, and everything felt incredibly cheesy and lame considering it is a Netflix production. Then there is the narrative, which could be summed up as a weird Japanese fantasy and it was surprising how many stupid twists it had, and the main screenwriter had clearly just pulled them out of his ass, and they were shamefully predictable. On top of that, there were the terrible dialogues, which I found distracting at times and struck me as if they had been written by a first-grade elementary school student. Plus, nothing holds together at all, not even the pacing... I have no will to even continue writing about this because I want to forget that I even watched it and wasted an hour and a half of my life I can never get back. I could have spent that time on something more constructive. I am not going to award it a BOO! because, based on everything I have seen, this still floats a few inches above the bottom of the barrel, so 1/10. (12.10.2021)