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The dialogue truly sucks-вЂњWe could change the world.вЂќ вЂњWe? As in us?вЂќ-but, worst of all, Wingard and his writers never figured out what to do with Ryuk.

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It could be due to years of rewrites of a massive piece of source material, but this movie is a mess on every level, particularly its script. Wingard has been a gifted, exciting genre director before with works like вЂњ The GuestвЂќ and вЂњYouвЂ™re Next,вЂќ but this is misguided in every way. And the biggest problem is that Wingard and company clearly refused to make Light the antihero he needed to be, and so they add a love interest and pervert the entire concept, leaving the project hollow at its center. Why make this or that change? Why add this character or change this plot point? If thereвЂ™s no true answer, itвЂ™s all just a hollow exercise. One of the best elements of the manga was the cat-and-mouse between Kira/Light and L, but thatвЂ™s greatly diffused here by the addition of Mia and the changes made to LightвЂ™s family, including his police chief father ( Shea Whigham).ДЄnd hereвЂ™s where we get back to the fatal flaw of вЂњDeath NoteвЂќ: it doesnвЂ™t feel like any of these alterations to the source material, and there are many of them, had true artistic or thematic purpose. (One couldВ argue that this character is a version of the manga's Misa Amane, an eventual companion for Light in the books but the character's history and purpose are radically different.)В And the pair soon get a nemesis in the mysterious вЂњLвЂќ ( Keith Stanfield), who tracks the God of Death known in the press as Kira. The biggest change in the film version of вЂњDeath NoteвЂќ is the inclusion of a romantic arc with another high school girl named Mia ( Margaret Qualley), who is quickly let in on the Angel of Death Game because Light has a crush on her. In the film version, Light does move back to вЂњjustified murder,вЂќ but even those are Horror Extreme, taking out the man who got away with killing LightвЂ™s mother and a criminal holding hostages-both in brutal ways.

Light decides to see if a school bully will truly be decapitated if he writes that on a blank page, and Wingard gleefully stages the ensuing carnage like heвЂ™s planning to reboot the вЂњ Final DestinationвЂќ franchise next. Perhaps recognizing this wouldnвЂ™t be thrilling enough for a horror film, the вЂњDeath NoteвЂќ movie becomes a gorefest almost immediately. In the manga, Light begins testing his own morality by killing criminals, allowing them to die peacefully of heart attacks as he tests the boundaries of playing God. What would you do with that kind of power?

In the movie, Light writes a name and a manner of death and it unfolds in front of his eyes. In the manga, the rules are extensive and repeated often, but Wingard and writers Charley Parlapanides & Vlas Parlapanides and Jeremy Slater understandably simplify things a bit. Write someoneвЂ™s name in the book and they will die. The book says Death Note on the cover and has names written in it over centuries. A boy named Light Turner ( Nat Wolff) finds a book dropped to Earth by a Shinigami, a Japanese death demon somewhat akin to the Grim Reaper, named Ryuk, voiced in the film by Willem Dafoe. The concept of вЂњDeath Note,вЂќ the manga and at least start of the film, is simple.

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