Anime Book 2

Death Note Netflix Review

Oh boy..... Okay, so here it goes, the rumors are true guys, this movie sucks as both an adaptation, and as a film alone. Netfilx's Death Note, while being visually very interesting, lacks the smart writing, characters, and scenarios which made the original so entertaining.  This film has three factors which leads to it losing the originals meaning.
1. The smart writing is gone.
Yes this was rather condensed, but they could have at least put some effort into writing a coherent narrative, and making the dialogue, characters, and situations have that Death Note feel. I mean literally, You have several loose ends, and mostly moments that will leave you face palming. Things such as the cliche of Light's motivation being avenge his dead mom to start out. I can't believe they had to use that cliche, something the original never needed. Then, i can say that all the characters are extremely watered down for the most part. The only time i felt smart writing was at the end of the movie, even then it felt like a damn sitcom ending as well. They said they wanted to make a darker film, but no, the original is 100 times darker, overall, the writing is a real groaner.

2. The Light vs. L stuff sucked.
This was one of my biggest problems with the film, they took one of my favorite rivalaries in all of anime, and honestly f**ked it up. Now in this film, it's not like Light and L even have many interactions at all, but when they do, all life is sucked out of them. The confront  scene is their first true interaction, With no Wits, no intensity, and no build up to it. They talk a few minutes, and boom instant rivals...( god did that scene feel idiotic)
Then the other is when L( repeat L) chases Light with a firearm, with full intent on killing him... What the hell. L would never do that, L never let's his emotions.... I mean damn....

3. Light has no God complex, and is not crazy.

Light isn't the villain, no, the villains are in fact Mia( Misa) and Ryuk. Honestly, Light acts like he's never sure, this is wrong, or right, was always his way, he wasn't a big wanna be god, or a manipulator, and he isn't even mental at all. That was what Death Note was known for, How the power Light got, and how it slowly turns him into a complete psychopath. With every decision being his own, but no, instead they had to make him some hero, and Make the other two the manipulator and monster. makes. Mia the one who kills the FBI, make her power hungry more then someone who was dedicated to Kira. Then of course, Ryuk isn't neutral either. This was the point behind the original, and they completely missed that, a once cleaver show of mentality, and of what great power can do to a once good person, due to their own choice. This is why the movie fails!

Good aspect: William Dafoes Ryuk. Cinematography, with some good performances here and there, and some decent affects.

Overall: 5/10

It's honestly average,  when you look at it, you see something they might had been able to make great, maybe if it were an actual show or something, but as it stands, it fails horribly as an adaptation of a classic.