Death Note (2017) - Why it Sucks

the Netflix movie Death

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is trash, yes it's really bad. I know most people expected it to be bad. All anime movies are bad. All anime movies will be bad for the rest of recorded history. Guess what guys? I liked this movie because it is animated if you take it. I won't like it that much anyway. No, I don't understand why they don't understand it. I watched this movie knowing I was probably going to be angry, but holy shit, it's so incompetent. I was surprised. how messy and inconsistent a movie can be, it's been a while since I got this upset.

I was originally going to approach this video as a review of the movie for people who haven't seen the anime or read the manga. I was going to see if this movie worked as a standalone experience. Spoilers, it doesn't, then I realized that ignoring the original series is impossible. In this case, the movie literally takes elements from the original series and just makes them worse, so if the movies are going to be that horrible, then yes. I'm going to compare them now. I'm still not going to rely on comparisons between the two, but there are some parts I WON'T be able to help myself with.

I'm going to do my best to explain why this movie

sucks

on its own. Now you know that I like to start my rants by talking about the things I liked. I like to give everything for the benefit of the doubt. So what did I like about this movie? There are not many things. I like this scene. Here I am now looking for this guy, shut up, that was probably the only time the movie intentionally made me laugh. I was still laughing, although believe me, but not because I wanted to. What else did I like? I liked it that way.

It's two hours, okay, so let's get to the things I didn't like. Now when you start this movie, originally you might think okay, so this isn't that bad, it's not very good, but it's not offensive, it's not horrible, but then you get halfway through this movie and you go crazy, so let's start with the first half of the movie. The problem with this section is that the pacing is way off at the two minute mark. The light has

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, although at 8 minutes. When he meets Rhee uke shortly after, he kills his first person and soon after gets a girlfriend.

This is accelerating too quickly. I understand that they have to fit all this content into this movie in an hour and 40 minutes, but with the writing it's so rushed that you never have time to learn anything about Ryu Mia or even life. We've met all of the main characters at this point, but we don't really know anything about them. There are a few brief moments where we see Ryu Light and Mia. all in the same scene and it starts to get interesting if we had more time to develop these characters this movie wouldn't be so bad.

I'm not saying that they lengthen it, even if they don't, please. Don't make this movie two hours, what I'm saying is make this a series, spend more time developing the relationship between these two characters, spend some time making your main character likable and relatable in some way, you spend all this movie without knowing anyone that well and you hate everyone the same, so Light has the Death Note, he has a girlfriend, a demon follows him, so now he is like a super assassin and decides to make a name for himself now in the original series , here it was given a name.

In light of his fan following a sort of cult status in this movie his reasoning for choosing this name is this: it also means assassin and Japanese, so they'll be looking for him, he'll be on the wrong continent, that's really dumb. . The first point in the movie where you'll realize that the logic of this movie doesn't really make much sense, it's a very, very dumb idea, but here's the thing, guys, your dumb idea actually works, the cops really They think it's Japanese. When L first introduces himself, he says: Hey guys, guess what I'm super smart and I can find Kira because guess what I know, a secret.

Kira isn't really Japanese, yes, vii believes the killer is operating from Japan, but the name is intentional. misdirection hello I'm Captain Obvious that's what you've discovered that's the first thing you're going to reveal to us that doesn't make you look very intelligent that makes you look even dumber than light and that says a lot too just in case you didn't know that In the original series L likes to eat sweets, he's like a man-child and he's like a cute court character, but in this movie they decided to give him a reason why he eats sweets. The insulin spike of sweets would focus your mind for final consideration when they leave you asleep for an hour.

So L doesn't need a reason to eat sweets. He doesn't need them. They don't explain why Ryu likes apples. That's something the original series does. Ryu clicking on the apples is strange enough to warrant an explanation, plus this explanation is not only unnecessary, it also makes no sense. Sweets can't keep you awake for 48 hours. The movie is starting to make no sense, but it will get much worse later. Believe me, I would also like to point out that while this movie is not poorly shot, it does have some notable moments of poor editing. Assistant Director POTUS detected it a moment ago, we need to contact all the FBI agents on his team.

It's not just seen in the cuts or the audio mix, it seems like this movie is missing scenes, like I swear there are a lot of things that would have been explained much better, but were probably cut for some reason. There are many hints of this, for example, Ryu says that he is disappointed with the light and advised him before that he get rid of the Death Note. I asked him politely but he didn't listen to me. Release the

note

. Look at the conflict it is causing you and your low level. girlfriend but she never actually did that she said it was an option for Light to get rid of the Death Note but she never suggested that Light actually do it in fact she did the opposite she forced Light to use the Death Note now she says she wanted Light to get rid of the Death Note give up, that's a little strange.

You never said that there is another moment in the scene where L and Light meet for the first time. Oh, you're the guy, you're a help, well that's weird, how would you know his name? Why am I more surprised that Light knows his name right away? Basically what I'm saying is that if you're really paying attention when you watch this movie, you'll be punished pretty quickly too. I would like to talk about what is happening. In this scene, first of all, most of the original series consists of L in Light playing an intricate cat-and-mouse chase. When L confronts Light for the first time, she does so by being friendly to him, even inviting him to help in the investigation to find him.

Kira, because he thinks it's more important to have him around him, says yes, he's like five percent sure the light is Kira, but he's not aggressive about it because that's not how you start an investigation, even when he says directly that the light is. he's a suspect, he lies to her and says he's only one percent sure despite having established to the audience that he's actually about five percent. He is subtle in his approach. Every line shared between the two is part of their plots against each other. It's been a while. but at one point I was the British junior champion.

I asked him if he is British. Would he think I'm trying to find out more about him because I'm Kira? So how does the film treat their first interaction? Elle faces the light in a restaurant. He simply says I know you're Kira. I'm 100 percent sure and then they start yelling at each other that's not how you interrogate someone. This man is completely stupid, but that's how stupid the fact is that the light is not. You don't even hide that he's Kira, the movie wants you to believe that Light is smart, but the moment he confronts him, he starts to crack under pressure, so who's dumber in this scene?

I guess everyone's dumb, that's cool, anyway, Light just leaves the restaurant because why not? you and him discover that Mia is standing in front of her house in the rain and wants to apologize for wanting to kill her father in an earlier scene, yes she wanted to kill her father, she wants to murder everyone, but it's never really explained why, so we don't do it. I'm going to worry about that and then she says this, honestly this is one of the most shocking moments in the movie for me because I forgot she was a cheerleader. She doesn't bother me because she is around all the time.

Honestly, she bothers me more. because I don't know her why she's a nervous killer why she's so evil she wants to kill dad lights in the blink of an eye oh, she likes violent movies okay, she likes violent movies whatever, I like it too I like a lot of people who are not assassins, this is the only development or background we have about this person, she has more screen time than Ryu K; the reprimands aren't even in the movie most of the time. Also, I should mention that the light shows you the

death

note. By the time he starts talking to her, are you really the world's dumbest son of a bitch in the original series?

Light builds this booby-trapped drawer in his desk that will probably set his entire room on fire if anyone tries to open it and finding the Death Note in this movie he shows it to the first girl he meets, even leaving it to be stolen. Remember this is the character they want us to think is super intelligent, so this is all bad, but it's not That bad, but then things take a big turn when Light decides to brainwash Watari, the servant of Elle. This is where the film completely loses any structure or consistency it might have possessed in the first place, so Light decides to use the Death Note to brainwash Watari.

ELL's real name from this database or whatever so you can use Death Note to manipulate someone for 48 hours before they die, but Light doesn't want Watari to die for some reasons, so he decides to burn the page from Watarase right after getting the information. She apparently wants that one of the rules in this movie is that you can burn someone's page and you'll stop them from dying. Well, first of all, the rule about burning the page makes no sense. Luke says you can only save one person by doing this. So what happens if you burn a page with a bunch of names?

You have all been using more than one name on these pages. That rule doesn't make sense. Secondly, how did the light mind control Watari without knowing his full name in the movie? states that you need the full name of a person you are going to kill. He just writes what I feel, you're telling me that his name was just Watari, like he has a name, a name, who is your label? any name now that implies that L is the biggest idiot in the world. He hides the identity from him. He doesn't use his real name, but lets his adoptive father walk around with his name and face known to everyone.

He is literally giving you his name. people and says that he's pretty sure Light is Kira, so he can assume that Kira can get information from the police because Lights' dad met Watari. Light could easily get Watari's name and face, so when Watari disappears and you realize it wasn't Elle's plan, he starts going crazy, she made me do the same thing, he goes completely crazy, it's so inconsistent when you consider how he's been acting up to this point again if you're ignoring the original series and just walking away. the logic that this movie has established you will see how many inconsistencies there are, for example Light suddenly doesn't want to kill Watari, he never actually says why, so I guess we have to assume that maybe he doesn't want to. he wants to kill people who haven't done bad things, he says that he would kill anyone who has sex with Mia, although he says that he will kill Elle even though L hasn't done anything wrong, so what is Also why?

But what Ari finished what he was saying before he died, what happens is he starts reading the information that the light brainwashed him to find, but then he stops talking to these cops and dies. He was just ordered to do what he was told and he didn't do it. Even do that, did you just write in the Death Note that I'm sorry, he finds the information and reads it in the light, but if someone barges in and interrupts him, he has to stop in the middle of his sentence and die, so of all How do a lot of things happen?

It's not important and Light finds out that Mia has been using the Death Note behind her back and that she is a super evil crazy psychopath, but then he also says that she wrote down her name and that he will have to give her the book. as if it were a gift. She is the permanent owner of the Death Note so he can burn her page and spare her life, but then she keeps the Death Note and her plan makes no sense. You said you needed seven days to get through the book. It's only been two days since I've been keeping track.

This is so vague, so I can just give the Death Note to someone and skip the 7 day rule. Ryoka said many times that if Light doesn't want the Death Note anymore, he has to do it. just leave it somewhere for seven days, you see what I mean when I say it looks like it's missing scenes, so anyway now the light runs to the ferris wheel so it can meetto Mia and they can exchange the Death Note. We'll explain why this is stupid in a moment, but first we have a stupid chase, so L is chasing the light because he's upset that Watari died.

He steals a police car, drives around Seattle like a madman and somehow finds the light running through downtown, how did he do it? Find him Seattle is pretty big, how did he find him driving erratically through the streets and screaming like a maniac? The light is also explicitly doing everything it can to wreak havoc during this chase. It's cartoonishly chaotic, you'd think okay, the light is obviously trying. throw things in the path and make it harder for L to chase him, but there is even a point in the chase where the mess the light made is the only reason L can follow him, plus L is creating even more chaos than the light anyway after the chase scene, light and mia meet on the ferris wheel where they had a date. at the beginning of the movie and if this wasn't already stupid, it's about to get really stupid, literally, so when you see this scene for the first time you can ask some questions: why did they meet on the Ferris wheel?

Wouldn't this be pretty silly? place to corner yourself you have absolutely no escape route how she overtook him to the ferris wheel how the police knew where to find them also why there are like a hundred police officers that the police sent to do two things this detective used all his skills to The guy didn't , no, he should be considered armed and dangerous and I want my son Peter in protective custody until he is located, apprehended because he is dangerous and crazy, and Light is escorted to safety. The cops found him after the stupid chase scene, so why are there a million of them here on the Ferris wheel too why are they wearing riot gear?

Don't worry, the movie apparently has a reason for all of this, except for the reason there are so many fully armed police officers, there's really no reason for that. Mia is like you give me the Death Note and she steals it and then reveals to us that he wrote that she would die if she took the Death Note from him, huh? Since when can you indicate a death like that? It was never shown that you can have these conditional deaths before that if he. he fell into the water oh don't worry I'll get to that by the way I'm right on the ferris wheel I'd also like to point that out remember how the police approached him remember how they're supposed to do it keep him away from the light yeah he he's just here now, there's no explanation, so light wakes up in a hospital because apparently he was in a coma, don't worry, I'm getting to that and then his dad shows up and says, hey, I figured it out. than your cure because it's actually very obvious and then Light reveals that it's a big master plan and it's the dumbest plan in the whole movie so let me see if I understood everything right so Light used the Death Note to do everything and I mean, it all happened.

The way she did it, she did it so the Ferris wheel would be destroyed, that's crazy, but whatever she does, it's actually the least crazy thing that happens here, so Mia grabs the page with her name on it and throws it away. to the fire. in the air and then dies, he actually wrote it to happen like this, I'm not kidding, so light can also manipulate what a piece of paper does while describing how someone dies, what if there was no fire nearby in Mind that Ryuk says something has happened? It was physically possible for it to happen if your plan was to kill her the whole time, why did you need to make this clause where her death starts when she takes the death note?

Why didn't you write her name right away? Say she burns her page before she dies. So if you don't want her to die, she just burns her. After that, you don't need to start this elaborate chase through the city and die on a Ferris wheel. There are many easier methods. than this, so what was the point of all this? Oh, it's because he needs a reason to clear her name. Oh, but listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, friend. I don't know if you know this, but the cops don't think you know. Regarding Kira, I should also point out that Light literally writes in the description of Mia's death that she survives the fall.

Okay, that doesn't make sense. You shouldn't be able to defy the laws of physics in the details of another person's death. I must also mention one. More Time Sucks says things have to be physically possible, so Light writes that a guy who likes attacking people or whatever rescues him put him in a coma for two days while another criminal controlled by Light take the death note and write the names. on him while Light is in a coma, so this is supposed to clear Lights' name since it won't be suspicious if people die while he's in a coma.

We have previously established that if a person controlled by Death Note does not. They don't know something, they can't do that. Watari couldn't tell light information that he didn't know, so how could this random idiot find the Death Note, something that he doesn't know exists in the river without knowing where? was that those aren't the rules, that's direct, those aren't the rules, you even told me that now you know what you like. I said Light isn't a suspect at all, he doesn't need to do any of this to clear his name, he just thinks he's a suspect and all the cops hate him, why are you so adamant about clearing your name when you're actually not in? no problem?

Mia, so there's no one who thinks the light is Kira. Also at the end of the movie, Elle breaks into the house of lights and finds a page from The Death Note and they make fun of the fact that she could write the name of the lights in the Death Note. Wait a second, oh. boy, here's the thing, why would L even think of writing the name of the light in the notebook without knowing how it works? How could he know? Okay, so this magical piece of paper is how the light has been killing people. I walked into someone's room and saw this.

Your mind wouldn't immediately think that this paper is magical and writing these names will kill that person. How did you come up with that? So Elle has only seen one thing that says someone is going to die and that person. he's not dead, so why would she assume that the newspaper is how they kill people? But it's okay because we never actually see if he does it or not because it's left ambiguous, but then we get to the part of the movie that made me just laugh, I'll show you how this movie really ends. Humans are so interesting it seems like an accident.

It feels like this movie had another part after that, but the editor just forgot to put it with the face lit at the last second. It's like wait, are we really going to cut here? Are you sure you want to end the movie like this? And to top it all off, the credits have behind-the-scenes footage and bloopers. Yeah, I'm not kidding, this takes you right out of a movie. Very difficult, this is acceptable in comedy or family films where the tone is a little lighter, but in a supernatural mystery thriller, this is not the last impression you want to leave on your audience.

This is what you now know some of the scenes from this movie. they're a little ridiculous right, most of it feels like it's intentionally silly now, what if the movie was originally supposed to be a black comedy? What if I was fully aware of the nonsense and just exaggerated it to explain some sort of A lot of this stuff sometimes feels like the movie isn't real, it's really ridiculous when the light and I fall off the Ferris wheel and that cheesy music starts to ring. I started thinking about how cool it would be if this was just an up. parody of a love story, they're basically horny psycho teenagers now, which would actually be an interesting idea for a movie, cutting out Ryu and just playing with the idea of ​​these two manipulating each other while saying how much they love each other.

A black comedy. romance oh wait, that movie already exists, it's called Heather's and it's actually good, so I'm not going to say Oh, fans of the series should watch this movie for a laugh, don't just go see Heather's. I don't care, go watch something else. The movie is just a waste of time. Stop making anime movies. The fact that this movie was left open for a sequel bothers me. Don't watch this movie and make this studio think people actually liked it. Please don't do it because last we saw. Necessity is a sequel to