2017 Directed by Adam Wingard
A young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the Death Note, that grants him the power to kill any person simply by writing down their name on the pages. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals and change the world, but an enigmatic detective attempts to track him down and end his reign of terror.
Nat Wolff Lakeith Stanfield Willem Dafoe Margaret Qualley Shea Whigham Paul Nakauchi Jason Liles Michael Shamus Wiles Artin John David S. Jung Tony Ali Christopher Britton Masi Oka Matthew Kevin Anderson Barbara Beall Lia Lam Christian Sloan Jessica McLeod Cole Vigue Olena Medwid Paul McGillion Eileen Pedde Fraser Corbett Natalie Moon Ash Lee Albert Nicholas Arlina Rodríguez Chris Webb Michelle Kim McCoy Show All…
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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…
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.
Disposition Matrix. That was the name given to an 'information management' system developed under the Obama Administration as to who lives and dies, who is extraordinarily rendered and who is not. It utilized large-scale data-mining operations, human intelligence gathering, threat-determination algorithms and the like which would end up in a Tuesday briefing where President Obama would personally decide who to assassinate that week. Drone assassinations in Pakistan apparently didn't require Presidential Authorization, but everywhere else did. It didn't matter what citizenship you might have held, how old you might have been, what others you might be in proximity to and so on. Well, that isn't exactly true. Those factors mattered enough to be personally considered and weighed before an assassination…
But why does the creature Willem Dafoe voices look like what you'd get if The Green Goblin fucked a porcupine?
Half a star for Willem, half a star for the screaming detention scene
This is slightly better if you ignore the source material which clearly isn't saying much
VIDEO REVIEW: youtu.be/fsLfkp8tLw8
So apparently you don't need to have read or seen even the tiniest of slivers of what this film is based on to truly appreciate the depths of its layers of crappiness.
i just finished binging the anime show and despite it losing its footing about halfway through, it’s one of the best shows i’ve ever seen. the same can not be said for this absolute piece of shit. the writers of this film probably failed english.
+ Brainscan meets Final Destination
- Synth music & neon glowing montages of teenagers falling in love -- ZZzzzz...did I fall asleep and wake up in 2012?
- Wingard's signature lechery, we get it, you lust after the starlet
- "What if some dude fucked your girlfriend and you wanted to KILL him? I'd kill him." JFC
- The romantic reunion/kiss in the rain made me fucking gag
+ That school dance scene actually made me laugh, was that a public school? How did they have a budget for those decorations, maybe they should make sure all the kids have access to, I dunno, pencils?
- Hated Light & his warn-out detective widower cliche of a dad
- Is there a 1-800 number for Dutch Angle abuse?
+ Liked Willem Dafoe and LaKeith Stanfield, can I get a movie with the two of them directed by someone else, please?
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Nat Wolff looks like an overripe mango.
Didn't know 80s synth Capital-T Trash could be so gross and stupid and silly in this day and age but....here we are. And it's maddening. Pair it with a six-pack and double it with a screening of Tom Cruise's Oblivion.
After watching this I honestly just wish someone would write my name in that fucking notebook.
