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Death Note
Directed by
Adam Wingard
R
2017
1h 41m
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4.5
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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
Sofy Chen
Daughter
Keanu Lam
Freshman Kid
Jesse Stretch
James Brode
Masi Oka
Detective Sasaki
Maxwell Barton
Jock
Paul McGillion
Principal
Anup Sehdev
Restaurant Worker
Cole Vigue
Ride Operator
Fraser Corbett
Waiter
Shayan Moallef
Young Couple (Male)
Kate Dion-Richard
Young Couple (Female)
Jackie Blackmore
Teacher in Charge
Evelyn Chew
Teacher
DaeYoung Danny Kim
Busboy
Michael Shamus Wiles
Captain
Beau Han Bridge
Brandon
Chris Webb
Military Contractor #1
Rhys Williams
Military Contractor #2
Natalie Moon
British News Anchor
Shanel Pratap
News Anchor #3
Bowen Zhang
Chinese News Anchor
Sonia Beeksma
American News Anchor
William B. Davis
Radio Host
Kyle Donaldson
Male Reporter
Dawn Chubai
Female Reporter
Alessandro Miro
Douchebag Bro #1
Albert Nicholas
Douchebag Bro #2
Wyatt Cameron
Kenny's Cronie
Cameron Forbes
FBI Director Pearl
Howie Lai
FBI Assistant
Matthew Mandzij
NYPD Officer
Artur Stofel
German Newscaster
Arlina Rodríguez
Mexican Newscaster
Eileen Pedde
New Teacher
Barbara Beall
Assistant (uncredited)
Lia Lam
Nightclub Girl (uncredited)
Olena Medwid
Russian News Anchor (uncredited)
Ash Lee
Officer (uncredited)
Michelle Kim McCoy
Night Club Girl #2 (uncredited)
Colin Corrigan
Cop (uncredited)
Sarah Ziolkowski
Passerby (uncredited)
Scott Seol
Prisoner (uncredited)
Jesse Irving
Homecoming King (uncredited)
Addison Gosselin
Brodie's Daughter (uncredited)
Juanpaolo Mercado
Top Hat Guy (uncredited)
Death Note Ratings & Reviews
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.
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.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
The whole thing feels like the pilot episode of a third-rate comic-book vigilante TV show.
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.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
Netflix's Death Note fails Asian-Americans in the more mundane way that most Hollywood releases continue to .
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
GQ
Joshua Rivera
I'm not sure who Death Note is for.
Common Sense Media
Renee Schonfeld
Illogical horror film with graphic violence, cursing.
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.
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.
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