Synopsis
Justice is coming.
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
Directed by Adam Wingard
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
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Adapting “Death Note” into a feature-length American movie was always a colossally bad idea — Tsugumi Ohba’s manga ran 108 chapters, and there’s a good reason why the only decent riff on the original was an anime series that ran for 19 hours — so neglecting to include any Japanese-American actors among the top-billed members of the cast just made things that much worse. It was a bad decision on top of a festering pile of bad decisions, but it was also the kind of mistake that reveals the wrongheadedness of an entire project.
Whitewashing is never a purely aesthetic act; it’s always an indication of a deeper rot. In this case, it pointed towards an inability or unwillingness to…
The writers of this are fucking cowards
for leaving out the gay subtext between Light and L
it is INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me that this movie ends with a BLOOPER/BEHIND THE SCENES REEL
Exploitation for Tumblr teens. Wingard directs with no sense of characterization or form, only a vague interest in stylizing the source material's goofy fantasy vs. brutal violence—oddly none of its cat-and-mouse thriller tendencies though? Comes alive briefly during the glimpses of Final Destination splatter carnage but there's not nearly enough of it to justify the bizarre, sympathetic, in-over-his-head martyr story it tries to milk out of edgy angst power fantasy bullshit. Couldn't help but get the feeling this desperately wants Donnie Darko status but unfortunately for all involved it's much closer in resemblance to a CW drama.
After watching this I honestly just wish someone would write my name in that fucking notebook.