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- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A high school student comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life. [Netflix]
Directed By: Adam Wingard
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
Death Note
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3.1
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Summary A high school student comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life. [Netflix]
Directed By: Adam Wingard
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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21% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
29% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
43
21% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
29% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Wingard’s Death Note moves like a bullet and doles out practical gore and overheated melodrama in equal measure.
Whereas the more grounded scenes of Death Note anchor a startlingly bloody fantasy of power run amok, the scenes that fixate on super powers and code-busting seldom manage to rise above the realm of serviceable YA fiction.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 488 User Ratings
3.1
17% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
22% Mixed
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
62% Negative
302 Ratings
302 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 488 User Ratings
3.1
17% Positive
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
22% Mixed
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
62% Negative
302 Ratings
302 Ratings
There are two ways to judge this movie. As a Death Note adaptation: FAILS in every possible way.
As a separate story outside of the Death Note universe: It’s a GOOD MOVIE.
I liked the fact, that this is a more realistic perspective of a boy who finds the death note. We already had an anime about Light Yagami, no need to repeat the same story. I saw it, as a new protagonist, and for me it works. Also, just look at that chemistry between Mia and Light!!! Who doesn’t want a GF like that? :D
It’s NOT A PERFECT movie. But it doesn’t deserve all the salt it received....
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The result is perversely watchable, which puts it a cut above the average inane wannabe franchise-starter. With no likable characters or internal suspense to keep it in check, Wingard’s direction sputters out into a cloud of slickness and pastiche.
The whole thing feels like the pilot episode of a third-rate comic-book vigilante TV show.
The only reason to take such a uniquely Japanese story and transplant it to Seattle is to explore how its thorny moral questions might inspire different answers in an American context, so for this retread to all but reduce America to its whiteness indicates an absence of context more than anything else. It’s the most glaring symptom of a film that utterly fails to investigate its premise.
In adapting Death Note for a presumably American audience, Wingard loses the whole of its identity, and never finds a different one with which to replace it.
The new horror-thriller is cheesy, asinine, convoluted and ludicrous. On the plus side, if your eyeballs need a vigorous workout, this will have them rolling nonstop.
O filme mais recente de Death Note não tem nenhuma semelhança com o anime original, quão menos com a trama dos antigos filmes, não consegui entender o propósito pelo qual esse filme foi lançado, mas certamente se parecer e relatar em forma de filme a trama do Anime não foi. Porém sou honesto em dizer que é uma boa produção, e se você assistir sem o senso de comparação com o Anime pode com certeza gostar, já que foi muito bem feito, mesmo sendo completamente distinto do Anime.
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Ok I already didn't have high expectations because most people around me told me it was bad. I decided to watch the anime before so yeah I'm kinda disappointed. I know it's just an adaptation but like... literally nothing is similar to the anime. I really didn't like the direction this took.. but however it still was pretty entertaining so, I don't mind that much. I'm just MEH-ing at this.
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Not bad, but not great. Very minor spoilers.
Based on review scores, I went into this expecting it to be another terrible adaptation of a popular anime, which Western film makers are infamous for. I was pleasantly surprised. It's hardly a 10/10 film of course, but the visual style was pleasant to my taste and fairly true to what I remember of the source material. I was most impressed with Ryuk, the death god. , and I thought the acting was decent at its worst moment. The plot suffered from trying to condense too much into one movie and without having read any in detail reviews yet, I suspect this is where most people have issues with the film. They weren't bad enough to completely break the film for me. I suspect fans of the anime are putting it on too high a pedestal. They seem to forget it had problems itself. The entire second half ****.
Edit: Having read through several of the negative reviews, I can see a major gripe was the adaptation having a different plot from the original. I have no problem with this as long as the spirit of the original is captured, and I think it basically is. The core message of Death Note is that you can't make the world perfect. There is always some kind of catch, a lesser evil, or a cloud in every silver lining. I also see a lot of criticisms of how the characters were written and of the plot. These are legitimate, but I stand by my original argument that fans are being too hard on the adaptation and looking at the source material through the rose coloured glasses of nostalgia.
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