The movie opens with a song from Red Hot Chili Peppers and ends with a different song from the same band. They must’ve really liked them or something.
I feel like this film carries the issues that the Yotsuba arc had, but I do think they made it more interesting by giving the Death Note to the news anchor instead of a rando that works in a car company.
The big problem with that arc for me (and maybe for others too), it doesn’t elevate Light and L as rivals - so this movie didn’t quite give L a chance to make him more interesting.
It is cool that they implemented things that were omitted from the source material, like the murder of Misa’s family.
The cinematography feels slightly better here, but can be a bit jarring when they do a random zoom-in, like the moment when L gives a funny thumbs up gesture while eating.
And again, because I’m not familiar with Japanese fictional media (outside of anime), the acting felt like they were trying to mimic the anime but it comes across as flawed. For example, Light’s dad in the manga/anime is represented as a serious, no-nonsense type of person, and he’s like that in these films but is kinda void of all physical emotion (up until the very end) - if anything, he reminded me of Jotaro Kuso.
I like that they kinda used Near’s plan from the source material, just so we can have an alternate version of these events. However, if L burns the Death Notes and Misa loses her memory of them, shouldn’t that mean that he and everyone else in the task force should lose their memories too?
Lastly, Light’s gotta be gay (or asexual) right? Bro had a goth model girlfriend swooning for him, and he did the comical moves away before the love interest lies on their shoulder joke…
The movie opens with a song from Red Hot Chili Peppers and ends with a different song from the same band. They must’ve really liked them or something.
I feel like this film carries the issues that the Yotsuba arc had, but I do think they made it more interesting by giving the Death Note to the news anchor instead of a rando that works in a car company.
The big problem with that arc for me (and maybe for others too), it doesn’t elevate Light and L as rivals - so this movie didn’t quite give L a chance to make him more interesting.
It is cool that they implemented things that were omitted from the source material, like the murder of Misa’s family.
The cinematography feels slightly better here, but can be a bit jarring when they do a random zoom-in, like the moment when L gives a funny thumbs up gesture while eating.
And again, because I’m not familiar with Japanese fictional media (outside of anime), the acting felt like they were trying to mimic the anime but it comes across as flawed. For example, Light’s dad in the manga/anime is represented as a serious, no-nonsense type of person, and he’s like that in these films but is kinda void of all physical emotion (up until the very end) - if anything, he reminded me of Jotaro Kuso.
I like that they kinda used Near’s plan from the source material, just so we can have an alternate version of these events. However, if L burns the Death Notes and Misa loses her memory of them, shouldn’t that mean that he and everyone else in the task force should lose their memories too?
Lastly, Light’s gotta be gay (or asexual) right? Bro had a goth model girlfriend swooning for him, and he did the comical moves away before the love interest lies on their shoulder joke…
