Death Note 2017 (Netflix)

***This is a lazy review. I had to struggle to finish watching the mess. Fell asleep midway through and had to start over a few times.***

     I'm going to start out that if you're a fan of the anime that the Netflix Deathnote is based on you probably will not like the movie. Look I get it the whole "it's their own adaptation", but it's as if the creators never watched a single episode.

      My first complaint will be of Light, oh excuse me Light Turner himself. In the anime Light is a popular, smart, and manipulative character. In the movie he is reduced down to a whiny teen with too much time on his hands.

      Suave and manipulative to troubled teen

     Misa, ah Misa. She was my least favorite character in the anime. I felt as if she really had no purpose outside of her Shimigami eyes. I thought the movie couldn't make her worse. I was wrong. She's another bored teenager, except this time unlike her anime counter part she is a bit too eager to kill for no reason besides she's bored.

Look I adore Dafoe. He's one of my favorite actors, but he sold himself short as Ryuk. Anime Ryuk is a bored side character who finds humans interesting. I the movie it was as if they based the character solely on looks.

Throw some makeup on and BAM!!

Ryuk looks as if he was created by an overworked intern using Microsoft paint. Unlike the anime the movie Ryuk is always lurking in the shadows probably to make up for the terrible design.

                         Quick! Kill it with fire!!

L, Light's sugar obsessed nemesis that kept him on his toes in the anime has been reduced to someone you'd bump into during a rave.

                     

He can spin a mean record though

The only character that seems true to the source material is Light's father, but even that is a stretch. It's possible to make the characters look pretty close to the anime without fully copying it. The live adaptation of proves it.

      If you're going to copy homework try to copy the guy who knows what they're doing.

In truth this review was a bit hard to do. I couldn't find anything that I liked. The whole CF of a movie changed the good bits of the anime and characters and made it into another freaking rip off Bonnie and Clyde love story.

My one suggestion is to watch the live adaptation that came before Netflix. Treat the Netflix version like the live adaptation of Avatar the last airbender. Simply ignore it in hopes it will disappear.

    Until next time. This is Mouse and I'll see you then.