Death Note

"If you had a power to kill anyone by writing their name in the notebook, would you do it?"

The film adaptation from one of the best selling comic in Japan, follows a story of a student named, Light Yagami.

Light Yagami is one of the smartest highschool student who is about to graduate from his highschool. Light is athletic and is popular by many other students, and he believes that the justice always triumphs over the evil criminals. However, Light's sense of justice is betrayed when he hears that a man who murdered people has not been prosecuted because of unjust trial system while he was in a pub. Feeling betrayed, Light leaves the pub when he finds a note on the floor that says "Death Note" on it. Light doesn't believe it at the first, but when he finds out that he can kill people on the death note just by writing people's name on it, he decides to become the justice by killing criminals on his deathnote. Soon, Light is met up with a god of death who originally dropped the death note and the god tells Light to use the death note freely. Light's deed is found out when he is faced with a famous international detective named "L," delcares Light's whereabouts. The war of Light vs. L, justice vs. justice begins in this movie.

I personally thought they changed the a lot of contents from the comic book to the movie so I wasn't really happy about it because the placing of each parts were quite different and some of the parts were not following the comic book.

I felt that the movie was rushing too much because the comic book's pacing but that is what happens when a book is transferred to a movie, so I thought it was well done as a movie adaptations.

I thought the characters were being true to the comic book counter part so it was very well done.

Also the movie the was following the basic summary very well, therefore the whole movie really felt right.

I recommend this movie to anyone who are interested in suspense and fictional movies.

Trailer for the "Death Note"