Should you watch Death Note?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Death Note
Film · 2017
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
The sides of Death Note
- A notebook that kills whoever is named in it
- Ryuk, a demon voiced by Willem Dafoe
- A Seattle teenager playing god
Death Note is good for you if…
- you like a detective closing in on a hidden killer.
- you like deaths so elaborate they are almost funny.
- you like a demon who looms in the dark behind a teenager.
Death Note is bad for you if…
- you can't stand gory deaths on screen.
- you can't follow a teenager who kills the people he judges guilty.
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