Margaret Qualley - Mia Sutton
Shea Whigham - James Turner
Plot
A Death God named Ryuk drops a death note down on the human world, in America. A high school student (somewhat nerdy and very lame) named Light finds it on the school grounds and picks it up. Reading about it, he meets Ryuk who suggests to try it out so he can learn of the powers inside of the book. He chooses a bully at the school and, after writing in the Death Note, the kid gets decapitated next to the school after an odd coincidental (fatal) sequence.
Afterwards, he takes down the guy who killed his mother a while ago (leaving the house to just cop dad and Light). With the score settled, Light decides to right some more wrong by executing other criminals via the Death Note but the life of a teenager (even a Death Note wielding teenager) gets complicated, especially when a Sherlock Holmes like detective starts narrowing down on finding him and when Light gets a girlfriend (relationship drama for the Fail!). Can Light survive the Death Note, the inspection by L, and his odd relationship with his girlfriend Mia?
A Death God named Ryuk drops a death note down on the human world, in America. A high school student (somewhat nerdy and very lame) named Light finds it on the school grounds and picks it up. Reading about it, he meets Ryuk who suggests to try it out so he can learn of the powers inside of the book. He chooses a bully at the school and, after writing in the Death Note, the kid gets decapitated next to the school after an odd coincidental (fatal) sequence.
Afterwards, he takes down the guy who killed his mother a while ago (leaving the house to just cop dad and Light). With the score settled, Light decides to right some more wrong by executing other criminals via the Death Note but the life of a teenager (even a Death Note wielding teenager) gets complicated, especially when a Sherlock Holmes like detective starts narrowing down on finding him and when Light gets a girlfriend (relationship drama for the Fail!). Can Light survive the Death Note, the inspection by L, and his odd relationship with his girlfriend Mia?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3/5 - As an adaptation of the anime series, this was TERRIBLE. I'll get to that momentarily but let me say that the movie (not regarding as an adaptation) by itself is lacking. Don’t set something up randomly and expect the viewer to know what it is without explanation. If L and Light are going to meet, set up the scenario instead of having L just pop up without warning. If you’re going to make Light’s mom dead, you should explain the back story. There was too many things left out to explain the movie (with or without the background of the anime). Needed more as a stand alone movie.
As the adaption of the anime, it was horrid. They changed the last name of Light (and dad) and set it in the USA instead of in Japan. Why the heck did they put it in the United States? And changing Light to a whiny brat that doesn’t show intelligence? What the flying heck?! Light was, in the anime, a clever person that was not ruled so much by emotion. Sure, in the anime Misa was still attached to him, but that didn’t change his plan. In this movie, Misa was changed to Mia and there was not a second death note. She just happened to be a girl from his school who had a crush on him. Why did he reveal the information about the death note to her? I don’t know exactly but again I say that this Light is not as intelligent as the one in the anime!
Going back to family, why did Netflix decide to take Light’s mother and sister out of the picture? Sure, it gave Light something to angst about and make him want to revenge on his mother’s death but they didn’t say much of what happened so...
As a fan of the anime, I DEFINITELY do not recommend this. The rate would be 2/5 but the movie (as is) was decent and therefore that’s why I rated it a 3/5.
Watch Mojo's "Top 10 Dumbest Changes in Netflix's Deathnote"
3/5 - As an adaptation of the anime series, this was TERRIBLE. I'll get to that momentarily but let me say that the movie (not regarding as an adaptation) by itself is lacking. Don’t set something up randomly and expect the viewer to know what it is without explanation. If L and Light are going to meet, set up the scenario instead of having L just pop up without warning. If you’re going to make Light’s mom dead, you should explain the back story. There was too many things left out to explain the movie (with or without the background of the anime). Needed more as a stand alone movie.
As the adaption of the anime, it was horrid. They changed the last name of Light (and dad) and set it in the USA instead of in Japan. Why the heck did they put it in the United States? And changing Light to a whiny brat that doesn’t show intelligence? What the flying heck?! Light was, in the anime, a clever person that was not ruled so much by emotion. Sure, in the anime Misa was still attached to him, but that didn’t change his plan. In this movie, Misa was changed to Mia and there was not a second death note. She just happened to be a girl from his school who had a crush on him. Why did he reveal the information about the death note to her? I don’t know exactly but again I say that this Light is not as intelligent as the one in the anime!
Going back to family, why did Netflix decide to take Light’s mother and sister out of the picture? Sure, it gave Light something to angst about and make him want to revenge on his mother’s death but they didn’t say much of what happened so...
As a fan of the anime, I DEFINITELY do not recommend this. The rate would be 2/5 but the movie (as is) was decent and therefore that’s why I rated it a 3/5.
Watch Mojo's "Top 10 Dumbest Changes in Netflix's Deathnote"
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