Death Note American Movie Review
And it throws some nods to the audience to suggest there is more to death note than this movie.
Death note american movie review. A high school student named light turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages and launches a secret crusade to rid the world of criminals. Averagelife movie review september 1 2017 september 1. With nat wolff lakeith stanfield margaret qualley shea whigham.
Death note netflix 2017 american version posted on august 26 2017 august 26 2017 by dark minds think alike as fate would have it i m writing a second blog post because i almost completely forgot that netflix released the american movie version of death note today. A boy named light turner finds a book dropped to earth by a shinigami a japanese death demon somewhat akin to the grim reaper named ryuk voiced in the film by willem dafoe the book says death note on the cover and has names written in it over centuries. Death note is an adaptation of the famous manga and anime and while its source material is way better than this movie i found myself enjoying this cinematic outing.
It s about a. Death note netflix movie review. Directed by adam wingard.
It tells the supernatural tale of a misfit high school student struggling over his mom s violent death who finds that he has the stealth power to wreak vengeance on criminals or miscreants who ve gone unpunished. Whilst being a hardcore death note fan since the age of 17 my expectations for this particular film adaptation of tsugumi oba and takeshi obata s best selling manga series were very low to say. However wingard appears to have internalized american to mean white and therein lies the problem.
I believe a movie this bad deserves to be completely spoiled if anything to be avoided like the plague. Parents need to know that death note is an american made horror film based on a popular japanese comic book series manga. The script was rushed yes mainly in the beginning but it wrapped up pretty nicely in the end.
But after seeing the trailer for death note american version it intrigued me. The concept of death note the manga and at least start of the film is simple.
