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Death Note
Directed by
Adam Wingard
R
2017
1h 41m
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4.5
36%
23%
4.3
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A high school student named Light Turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages, and launches a secret crusade to rid the world of criminals.
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Cast of Death Note
Nat Wolff
Light Turner
LaKeith Stanfield
L
Margaret Qualley
Mia Sutton
Shea Whigham
James Turner
Willem Dafoe
Ryuk (voice)
Jason Liles
Ryuk
Paul Nakauchi
Watari
Jack Ettlinger
Kenny Doyle
Matthew Kevin Anderson
Agent Young
Chris Britton
Peltz
Timothy Lambert
Dr. Norman Ludlam
Kwesi Ameyaw
Undercover Agent #1
Justin Stone
Undercover Agent #2
Christian Sloan
Agent Franks
Artin John
Anthony Skomal
Tony Ali
Taliban Leader
Anousha Alamian
Taliban Soldier
David S. Jung
Dictator
Jess McLeod
Teenage Girl
Michelle Choi-Lee
Mom
Death Note Ratings & Reviews
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
Netflix's Death Note fails Asian-Americans in the more mundane way that most Hollywood releases continue to .
GQ
Joshua Rivera
I'm not sure who Death Note is for.
Paste Magazine
Zach Budgor
Faint praise this may be, but it is one of the few American anime adaptations to possess any identity whatsoever, let alone to comment on and reconfigure the original text in interesting ways.
Film Inquiry
Alistair Ryder
Death Note has plenty of faults, but watched with the brain firmly in the "off" position, it becomes easy to enjoy.
Common Sense Media
Renee Schonfeld
Illogical horror film with graphic violence, cursing.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
The first half promises so much -- but last half loses the right touch. Scary in parts, I must admit. So some horror fans might like it.
The New Republic
Clio Chang
Director Adam Wingard has robbed Death Note of its identity, messing up nearly everything that made the original series so compelling.
Pajiba
Kristy Puchko
Death Note is a whitewashed, hasty, and vapid adaptation that offers one great performance, few thrills, and lots of missed opportunities.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
The ending will have you switching off your Netflix app in disgust. If you don't die from boredom before you get there.
NPR
Andrew Lapin
The movie is a bored demon who bores his audience right along with him.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
At its best, the picture resembles Wingard's sharp-edged 2014 cult movie, "The Guest." More often, it feels like a 100-minute "previously on" montage for a cable TV show.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
The movie merely delivers a dim dose of ho-hum horror -- one whose demise, by all rights, can be attributed to natural causes.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Cramming several tons of plot into a one-pound screenplay, the three writers ... have little option but to condense. That said, Mr. Wingard's eye for a stylish image hasn't dimmed.
Variety
Peter Debruge
The script, credited to Charley Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides and Jeremy Slater, is a snarl of loose ends and half-explained devices, but Wingard executes it with style ...
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
The whole thing feels like the pilot episode of a third-rate comic-book vigilante TV show.
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
But this thriller-inclined version of "Death Note" doesn't dwell enough on such questions and instead becomes increasingly strained by its own insanity and clogged by clunky dialogue.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
Rather than relying on amplifying typical genre conventions, Wingard methodically lays the foundation to set up this particular Death Note adaptation for a potential sequel, but the outcome is more deliberate than inspired.
TheWrap
Inkoo Kang
Cheesy, asinine, convoluted and ludicrous. On the plus side, if your eyeballs need a vigorous workout, this will have them rolling nonstop.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Part of you will wish this had been a Netflix show instead of a Netflix movie - part of you will wish Netflix had left it alone altogether.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Whereas the more grounded scenes of Death Note anchor a startlingly bloody fantasy of power run amok, the scenes that fixate on super powers and code-busting seldom manage to rise above the realm of serviceable YA fiction.
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