Review Death Note Movie
September 3 2017 2 16 pm pigmus prime.
Review death note movie. Director wingard crashed into the genre scene with a vengeance over the last few years helming two of the best horror thrillers of the. It didn t focus enough on the supernatural part of the story enough and instead put too much emphasis on the teenage angst my ma is dead my pa doesn t understand me my girlfriend is using me. Death note is one of the most popular manga series in the world and it.
The movie premieres on netflix on august 25. The concept of death note the manga and at least start of the film is simple. My problem with it was it was rushed and rather boring.
The manga originally ran from 2003 2006 and was quickly adapted into an anime series beginning on the tail end of 2006. Death note 2017 has 1 comment. I ll say this right now if this movie was 100 minutes of light writing names in the death note and their deaths playing in as gory a fashion as is possible this movie would have been great.
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. Parents need to know that death note is an american made horror film based on a popular japanese comic book series manga. 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.
Netflix held an advance screening of death note at san diego comic con 2017. Death note 2017 is a netflix original adaptation of the japanese manga of the same title. Because of its immense popularity a string of less than stellar live action versions have popped up here and there with the newest being adam wingard s american take on the story.
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.
