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Nor are the deaths fun or suspenseful to watch - curious for a horror helmer like Wingard, who directed such well-received genre fare as “You’re Next” and “The Guest.” Save for the denouement atop a ferris wheel, the whole picture reeks of paycheck collection. The filmmakers throw in some usual Hollywood pablum about the dangers of vigilante justice and the seductions of absolute power, but those flimsy messages fly in the face of the rest of the film. To learn more about why critics aren't digging the movie, read on for some spoiler-free excerpts from the first Death Note reviews (and click the corresponding links, if you want to read the reviews in full). Wingard and Netflix's Death Note was first screened for the general public at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, well ahead of the film's premiere on the streaming service later this week. The first wave of reviews for Death Note are now online and, as indicated earlier, the initial critical consensus is negative at the time of writing this.
Related: "L" Confronts Light in Death Note Clip However, Light's vigilante actions soon attract the attention of both the police and a highly-intelligent, if quirky and enigmatic detective known as simply "L" (Lakeith Stanfield). Light, with the help of his fellow higher schooler Mia Sutton (Margaret Qualley), in turn decides to use his newfound "Death Note" to rid the streets of his city of crime, by killing off one law-breaker after another.
That Scarlett Johansson-led film was both a critical and commercial dud, but did help to shine a spotlight on the longtime, larger conversation about whitewashing anime/manga properties and the difficulties of translating Japanese comic book stories into America-based narratives, in the first place.ĭeath Note (2017), as was scripted by Jeremy Slater (co-writer of the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot), takes place in Seattle and revolves around one Light Turner (Nat Wolff), a brilliant teenaged outsider who happens upon a mysterious notebook that gives its user the power to kill anyone whose name they write down in it.
Wingard's Death Note follows on the heels of director Rupert Sanders' Ghost in the Shell live-action movie from earlier this year. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy SEAL Team 6 in May 2011.The first reviews for director Adam Wingard and Netflix's Death Note suggest that the film is yet another live-action anime movie adaptation misfire. A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) - Comedy.The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA. Mamma Mia! (2008) - Musical starring Amanda Seyfried.Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive. The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. See at Amazon What's already hit Prime Video this month