Regardless of whether Bright 2 finds a way to bring her back or if the film simply moves on and finds another bad guy altogether, we want Ward and Jakoby to face off against an antagonist who reads as earned, menacing, empathetic and generally more engaging than the crooked cops and arch villains that showed up in the first movie.
Right off the bat, it needs to be said that one of Bright’s weakest narrative elements was its villain.
Noomi Rapace is a phenomenal actress and was a physical powerhouse in Bright’s fight scenes, but the Prometheus star was given almost nothing to work with as Leilah.