Will Smith’s Netflix Film Has Been Labelled Worst Film Of 2017 & Here Are Its Nastiest Reviews

A Netflix original film is getting a shitload of attention for all the wrong reasons, with critics savaging Will Smith’s new movie Bright.

Already being heralded as this year’s Suicide Squad, Bright is a fantasy action film, that finds Smith and our own Joel Edgerton as LAPD cops – but Edgerton plays an orc. Yup, you still with me? There’s also fairies, dwarfs, centaurs and elves, as the movie revolves around a magic wand. It’s a lot to digest.

It’s Netflix’s first attempt at a fully-fledged blockbuster film, and while a sequel is (somehow) already in the pipeline, the film, for the most part, is being slammed by critics as one of the worst films of the year.

But the reviews are fucking funny.

Here are some of the most savage reviews:

IndieWire didn’t mince their words, calling Bright ‘the worst film of 2017’:

“There’s boring, there’s bad, and then there’s Bright, a movie so profoundly awful that Republicans will probably try to pass it into law over Christmas break. From the director of Suicide Squad and the writer of Victor Frankenstein comes a fresh slice of hell that somehow represents new lows for them both — a dull and painfully derivative ordeal that that often feels like it was made just to put those earlier misfires into perspective.”

Forbes went straight in for the kill:

“Congratulations, Netflix! You can make a visually grotesque, dreadfully dull and hopelessly convoluted would-be franchise action movie just as well as the stereotypical Hollywood machine! If anything, Bright is a giant Christmas/Hanukkah gift from Netflix to the major studios. It shows the streaming giant falling on its face in its attempts to replicate the so-called Hollywood blockbuster.”

There’s no love lost at the New York Times:

“(Ayer) strayed into empty superhero theatrics with the slapdash Suicide Squad (co-starring Mr. Smith) and again dilutes his integrity with Mr. Smith’s lightweight sitcom likability. You’ll find beatings, shootouts, car crashes, awkward analogies and a measure of buddy badinage in Bright, but true enchantment is in short supply.”

Vanity Fair labelled Bright, just as ‘loud and dumb as Suicide Squad’:

“While I had the misfortune to see Bright in a theater, most people will simply press ‘play’ out of curiosity on their Roku remote. I am willing to concede that this might elevate the experience a little; the ability to take a quick trip to the kitchen or restroom after shouting ‘no, don’t pause it’ to your partner on the couch will be liberating.”

While at News.com.au, they aren’t holding back:

“While we should all know better than to expect much from director David Ayer (Suicide Squad), he, usually, at least gets the action right. In Bright, it’s boring and repetitive — some stabby, stabby over here, some bang, bang over there. Oops, you’re dead.”

“Do yourself a favour and skip it — weeding the garden for two hours will be more enjoyable than Bright.”

Bright is available to stream on Netflix on 22 December 2017.