Review of Death Note (2017) by Mandy8668 — 26 Aug 2017

Netflix’s adaptation of Death Note turned an intellectual psychological series that had you pondering about every second, into a romance and a thriller. The characters the fans that were attracted by this american wash were lost in the attempt to crush a series into less then two hour movie, and they were left possibly the generic plotine and concept of the death note. The once questionably sociopathic Light Yagami had a grip on everything he was doing throughout the series due to his cunning as his belief that he would would one day be god made him invincible. Light Turner enjoyed killing the man who killed his mother and used the death note further to kill criminals as a duty, but his delusions of grandeur (as I like to see them ) were no more than thoughts. Light Turner struggled with his morality so much I wasn’t sure by the end whether he had given up because he was simply tired of being Kira, or whether he was standing by all his murders and would have denied had he could.

It lacks the battle between L and Kira for one another’s identities’. The Mia Sutton and Light Turner romance subplot took up time that could have been spent in many different ways, like the task force, which was left out for much of the second half. The way Light Turner introduced Mia to the death note, Mia being a near stranger was highly abrupt. There was absolutely no development of their romance, considering it was a big part of the movie they could’ve talked a little more. There was kissing where there could’ve been even a second of plot development, which it was obvious they only wanted to attract more romantics and less nerds. I actually made a joke about one of the scenes “Light Yagami: I only pretend to like your boobs Misa so people think I’m normal. Light Turner: It’s kinda hard to finger you while I’m killing people.” Mia became deeply obsessed with the note, more than I wish Light had I as actually highly enjoyed the series and did not like this version where Misa(Mia) has harder control over what she wants. Mia blackmails Light into handing her the note after she killed several agents, Wateri, then wrote down his name, portraying her as an enemy then again this show’s antagonist are really blurred. The movie without having had seen the original series is rushed, and character dynamics. I will not be watching the sequel.