the worst adaption I´ve ever seen.

Light, a stupid teenage student, uses the Death Note to impress Mia, a girl he likes.
They go rampage and kill criminals. L is getting emotional while it all turns into some comedy/love drama, because Light didn´t want to murder his own father.

If they changes ALL the names and maybe the title, the movie wouldn´t be that bad. But if you expect a Death Note movie, you´re only getting dissapointed.

I don´t even mind the "white whasing". I don´t mind, that L is black, Light is called Turner or Mia is just some random classmate of him. There personalities are all completely different and "Kira" is just a boring person.

In this adaptation, Light screams like a girl. That's all I can say.

This is almost on comical levels of adaption and overall movie quality similar to The Last Airbender and Dragonball Evolution. The only slightly good thing about this is Willem Dafoe as Ryuk and he only has like 15 lines.

Don't watch it. It's a bullshit adaption and a shit movie. Don't reward Netflix by watching this.

Garbage. Bad interpretations, so much blah-blah-blah. I wasn't expecting that *this* was equal to the anime, but this was so terrible, I wish I could forget it.
1) Ryuuk was the best actor.
2) How can be L so freaking emotional if he is a super trained detective since 6 years old?
3) The character of Light's father is only good until middle of the movie.
4) Mia. Terrible. Makes me desire to vomit. Urgh.

I found it entertaining, but my expectations were very low. They should have not tried to make this story about the same light and L as anime but have Ryuk drop the death note in America and a new character picks it up (NOT NAMED LIGHT). The timeline would be sometime after the anime series. The storyline of the movie and anime series are completely different.

Light= crybaby
L= over emotional
Mia= Badass villain?
Ryuk= Cool, but wasted

Okay, i'd rather watch boku no pico than this crap again.

My biggest problem with this is that L did not hold the phone correctly.

I was well aware that this "Death Note" was going to be a liberal adaptation of the source material but by the midpoint my patience ran out: whhhhhyyyy u do dis? This is coming from someone who associated the name "Adam Wingard" with good movies (up until Blair Witch anyways) and is not only here because of the anime avatar... He pretty much added insult to the injury by adding misguided gore effects, neon-lightning and picking the wrong songs to cue.
According to interviews the IP has been passed around in the industry for a while and has been rewritten a bunch during this (and it shows). So who exactly at Netflix figured this would reach a broader audience than the anime already did when they're replacing the core dynamics and traits that made it popular outside it's medium in the first place? Really disappointed with this... it's just a half backed adaptation restrained by it's need to keep the characters while going for a direction that doesn't really lend to them (the note could have fallen into the hands of ANYONE, no need to butcher). 90 minutes is also way to short as the flow is terrible.

It isn't that bad, on a premises of completely forgetting the original manga/anime and instead thinking of this as an american spin-off.

The cinematography was very pleasant.

Story a bit shallow, maybe because we're so used to western pictures. This was turned from something very dark and profound to a want-to-be smart romance supernatural story.

It is although worth a watch.