Official trailer for Netflix Death Note

[Roman Brady]

Just seen this, glad I never watched the anime or read the manga, so went in with no expectations. Thoroughly enjoyed it, great cast and the use of music was very effective. Did well to wash the stink of last weeks release..

Not that I am complaining but is every Netflix show going to use 80s music now

Ps only gripe I had was

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andie mcdowell's daughters heel turn, it was really sudden with no reasoning. They could have shoehorned maybe something about her being a victim of abuse or something.

And if L was suppose to be the super sleuth how could he be so dumb as to tell a random guy he's in the process of arresting kira (who he knew had a universal following)..

 

[The Rainmaker]

They took a cool concept and made it teenage emo shyt.

 

[Supa]

Absolute

They completely ruined Ryuk. He's not supposed to be evil or influence Light's decisions. He was just an observer and chose Light because he knew he had the intelligence to handle things on his own.

They sped through things and he was Kira with the international cult following in the first 30 minutes.

I can't say one positive thing about this.

 

[MikelArteta]

not that great but then again the anime was amazing so a 1 and a half hour movie cant compare

 

[Brandeezy]

Light is such a miscast

The scene where he's screaming and yelling like a bytch in the classroom looked like a parody

Mia would've been a better Light than this dude

 

[Ice Cold]

Review from a reddit poster

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As a big fan of the manga and anime, I must say that it's hard for me to review a piece like this. The team that helm the movie doesn't seen to have any will to please the fans, but to make Death Note susceptible to all the public. The basic plot and the name of characters are there, but that is it.
Is it bad? Well, not really. You won't be disappointed as in The Last Airbender because they are different takes on the story. It's like comparing How To Train Your Dragon book and movie.
Both actors are just... Meh. They look much older than the characters who they're playing and the acting is VERY forced sometimes. If you are a fan of L and his eccentricity, you'll be disappointed. L is sensitive and cool, while Light isn't the super genius guy who we are used to. Beyond that, the movie takes itself too seriously most of the times, which is distracting.
Ryuk is pretty much the perfect take of the character. He's scary, super realistic and Dafoe does an amazing job. Loved Mia and I would prefer her to be the main character and Kyra, since she's a much more interesting character than Light (now that would be different).
It could be so much more, but because the movie is around the two main bland characters, the experience comes a little empty. The experience would be probably better if you don't have any contact to the source material.
It's a 6/10 for me.

pretty much agree with this review more bland than bad

 

[BXKingPin82]

This shyt managed to be more buns than the first live action Death Note

 

[BXKingPin82]

Absolute

They completely ruined Ryuk. He's not supposed to be evil or influence Light's decisions. He was just an observer and chose Light because he knew he had the intelligence to handle things on his own.

They sped through things and he was Kira with the international cult following in the first 30 minutes.

I can't say one positive thing about this.

This

 

[Uchiha God]

Basura. how the fukk do you even fumble something like Death Note

 

[Bryan Danielson]

watching now...... wish me luck

Martha

 

[duncanthetall]

Jesus Christ this is fukking bad. How can you just breeze through all the shows shyt like that.

 

[Kingshango]

Finished it, made me wish I had a Death Note and wrote my name in it. Not even Willem Dafoe could save this.

 

[Brandeezy]

Jesus Christ this is fukking bad. How can you just breeze through all the shows shyt like that.

Probably the number 1 problem out of everything. They crammed so much shyt in an hour and 40 mins

 

[Cat piss martini]

I enjoyed it.....but i'm already
smoking and sippin patron.

 

[obarth]

Just finished it. Much better than I was expectingIt would have benefited from being a series. Two 10 episode seasons would have been perfect. But judging it purely as an adaptation it was good. I'm fully expecting internet nikkas to hate on this based on the liberties they took with the source material doeWith that said, I'm not taking any of that seriously when the creators of the source material praised this adaptation. If I want to see the manga adapted perfectly I have the anime for that. They took the overall idea of Death Note, the major characters and did their own thing. Stanfield's take on L was...interesting. They could have done a much better job displaying his connection to Watari if they were going to go in the direction they went. I found the dude who played Light boring as hell. Dafoe was dope as Ryuk. Mia, this version's Misa(and also serving as the ruthless side of Light in the anime), did a good job as well. The ending will be pretty divisive but it works imo.