Perry Kate
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
kelceygilroy
***ATTENTION***
THIS MOVIE IS NOT THE ANIME. GET OVER IT.
If you're looking for a decent movie, (if you are on Netflix it's one of the better ones I've found) this movie is a great thriller. Obviously a B movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. It kept my attention and had a believable ending. Overall I enjoyed watching it
brightsidereviews
I did not watch this movie with any pre-conceived notions of what Death Note has to be. I saw a clip with Willem Defoe as Ryuk and was sold. Having just rewatched the movie, I enjoyed it even more. The performances are great, it's filled to the brim with interesting and cool shots (with lots of Dutch angles and great background details,) the OST is full of 80s synthy goodness, and the whole movie is so much fun. Lakeith Stanfield gives the best performance of the movie, which made me pay attention to him before he showed up in Get Out and Atlanta, but Nat Wolff, much reviled I've seen for his portrayal of Light, is equally if not more deserving of praise for his hilarious line deliveries and for throwing himself full-force into this role. This role which isn't the same Light as in the manga or anime, but is the right character for this movie. This is a funny movie, and doesn't take itself to seriously, but is also very professionally and carefully put together on a technical level. Particularly at the beginning it struck me as being quite similar to Donnie Darko, but becomes its own twisted self as it goes on. I have heard the complaints, the angry fans, but as a movie, not as a Death Note adaptation but purely as its own film, I can find very little wrong with it, and countless reasons to enjoy it.
saararissanen
The same thing that happened to Eragon, Percy Jackson and The last airbender has now happened to Death Note. A disgrace.
ricardrev
This is the dumbed down version of Death Note. Death Note, the anime series is a masterpiece. This movie is an insult. The characters are completely different people from the originals, different personalities, and with that they threw away 90% of the story. The story in this movie is just based in the original, If they had done that to deliver something very good, fine. But no, this one is very cheap, some parts resemble more "Final Destination" than Death Note.
I was surprised to see that Netflix ended up providing a movie instead of a series. Wasted opportunity. Because there is already a (Japanese) movie with real life actors. So this was the opportunity for Netflix to do a series also with real life characters. Shame, because the Japanese movie is very good, even with a different ending than the anime, and a very good one. So we have a very good anime and a very good movie. Only Netflix had to come up with this trash.
