Bright 🎥 2017 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Humans coexist with other sentient species, notably orcs and elves. While magic is real, its practice is illegal. Magic wands exist, but only a few individuals called “Brights” can wield them without dying. In Los Angeles, veteran officer Daryl Ward is involuntarily partnered with Nick Jakoby, the first orc police officer ever in the US. Jakoby is detested by the other police officers for his species and by orcs for being a policeman. Ward’s relationship with Jakoby is strained since Ward was shot by an orc robber whom Jakoby failed to apprehend; Internal Affairs suspects Jakoby deliberately let him go.

One night, Ward and Jakoby respond to a disturbance at a safe house for the Shield of Light, an extremist group that prophesies the return of the Dark Lord, an ancient semi-mythical figure defeated millennia ago. The lone survivor is Tikka, an elf girl, who has a wand. Ward calls for backup, but when the four arriving officers see the wand, they try to coerce Ward into killing Jakoby and letting them steal it for themselves. The four officers give Ward a choice between him and Jakoby being killed or just Jakoby being killed, wanting to steal the wand for themselves.

Ward initially accepts the second option, but then demands the truth about the robber from Jakoby. Jakoby admits he lost sight of Ward’s assailant and mistakenly apprehended a younger orc, whom he then helped flee, knowing that the police would most likely kill the boy on sight. After learning the truth, Ward decides to shoot and kill all four of the officers instead. The gunfire attracts the attention of a Hispanic gang, while rumors of the wand draw the attentions of both its owner Leilah, the leader of the radical elf sect the Inferni; and Kandomere, an elf FBI agent assigned to the federal Magic Task Force.

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