Review of Death Note (2017) by Brentwshelton1 — 24 Aug 2017

First off, I want to say that I really really am rooting for Netflix to start putting out some quality movies - but I think the company is so anxious to produce something noteworthy (beyond some of their excellent tv series) that they keep green lighting total junk.

Secondly, I have never seen the source material that this adaptation is based on so I can't judge the content of this flick against the original. However, this movie is simply god awful dumb all on its own.

Between the porcupine/Joker demon with a Deadpool attitude and the truly irritating candy crunching "L"....I couldn't find a reason to sit through the whole mess. I simply did not care what happened to the two annoying lead characters (Light and Misa) or want to find out their fate at the end of the movie.

I found them whiny and unsympathetic and provided my own "Kira" execution by turning the tv off. At the beginning, with a heavy nod to the Final Destination franchise with the manner the first two deaths occurred, - Death Note had remote potential to be fun.

However, after the first 10 minutes of this confused mixture of genres that really doesn't know what it wants to be - any possibility of an interesting plot was lost. This movie should be a hard pass for anyone who reads this review.