Death Note movie review Fans of the anime can Netflix and chill this is how you do remakes. Death Note. Director Adam Wingard. Cast Natt Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, Lakeith Stanfield. Rating 3. 5. A Seattle high schooler, Light Turner, still in mourning after his mothers death at the hands of a rich maniac who went scot free, comes across a tatty notebook with the words Death Note scratched onto its moth eaten cover. Llega-un-nuveo-Crackle-1355.jpg' alt='Netflix Serial Cracks' title='Netflix Serial Cracks' />When he cracks it open, a spikey demon with glowing eyes appears out of the shadows. The demon, who calls himself Ryuk, looks a ghastly cross between the creatures from M Night Shyamalans The Village and Pennywise the clown. Ryuk, who seems to be particularly fond of apples this detail is in no way important to the plot, but oh well, tells Light, in the rusty voice of Willem Dafoe, that the notebook before him has special powers. If the books keeper there can be just one at a time writes down a persons name on one of its cracked, yellow pages, picturing that persons face in their mind as they do it, that person would die. If this power becomes too big a burden to handle, the keeper could pass the book onto someone else. Light, the demon says, is the books new keeper. And to demonstrate its powers, the demon persuades him to write down the school bullys name in it. Light scrawls a name on a page, pictures the face imprinted in his mind from all the beatings, and adds the word decapitation for good measure. Outside, he watches as a chain of events unfurls, and in what appears to be a freak accident, the school bullys head gets knocked clean off his body in the most grisly manner. Light freaks out, brought to his knees by what he has just seen, the Ryuks cackling growing louder and louder behind him. Light vows to use his new powers to bring justice to the world. Because based on everything weve seen so far, he is, inherently, a good person. The first name on his list The rich maniac who killed his mom. As Light racks up the kills very soon, with the help of his new girlfriend, 4. You must forgive the unusually long plot description, but Im afraid before we discuss the film, you need to be absolutely clear about its set up, which on paper sounds like something Richard Matheson or Charlie Brooker might cook up on a particularly grim evening. But its more or less the same as that of its source material the Japanese manga series which spawned several films, anime series, and a bunch of merch. Thats just how the Japanese roll. The team cracks under the pressure from an inhouse review. Holdens bold style elicits a confession but puts his career, relationships and health at risk. The American, Netflix produced Death Note could be about many things, though. Most obviously, it could be a film about karma, about how every act has consequences, and how, in the wise words of Justin Timberlake, what goes around has the tendency to come around. It could be a Greek tragedy about a boy who defies God certainly, Light seems to revel in his newfound power and is struck down for challenging the order of things. It could even be a film about first love, and how you never, ever forget it. Who knows Or, it could be the story of how the worlds most successful serial killer was born, and how the strange voices in his head compelled him to commit murder. It could also be a superhero origin story, in the same way that Chronicle was superhero origin story it wasnt, it was more like a supervillain origin story. Adam Wingard has certainly borrowed that films breakneck pacing. If anything, it moves too quickly. When it was over, I thought for a moment about everything that had happened, and decided that had it been any other movie, it couldve easily lasted 3. At an hour and a half, Death Note moves with the efficient pace of a kid late for his final exam. And as with his previous films most notably Youre Next and The Guest Wingard once again flaunts his rare gift. Some modern horror directors like Jaume Collet Serra and Fede Alvarez have a Hitchcockian command over atmosphere. Some, like Ti West and Adam Green, know how to work with shoestring budgets. Wingard, however, does tone like nobody else. In 1979, FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench devise a controversial plan to catch serial killers by enlisting the help of other depraved murderers. Death Note is part psychological thriller, part horror movie, part police drama, and part dark comedy and none of it feels out of place. Like the best J horror properties even though this is hardly a J horror movie anymore it lucidly lays out the rules of its world, and lets the characters flounder about in it for our enjoyment. Its propelled by a pulsating electronic score by Atticus and Leopold Ross, and a handful of fine performances once again, special mention must go out to the immensely talented Lakeith Stanfield, who plays the mysterious, hooded detective tracking down the vigilante. A chronic side effect of movies based on existing properties is that they usually alienate those outside its immediate fanbase. Not Death Note. It feels like the first in a series youd want to see. Watch the Death Note trailer here. Follow htshowbiz for more. The author tweets Rohan. Games Fifa 2005 Pc.