It's odd that Netflix would release such a pivotal, potentially spoiler-filled scene a few weeks before the movie is set to premiere on the streaming service. I guess, fortunately for us, the line you finally decided to draw points us clearly in your direction." I'll admit, I always wondered if you had a line. L continues, "You must have known it would implicate you, yet you couldn't bring yourself to do it. "Sparing your father's life," L says, causing Light to freeze. "If what was a difficult decision?" Light responds, avoiding eye contact with L. "I wonder if it was a difficult decision," L abruptly says.
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Sitting in his trademark crouch on the chair, L makes small talk with Light before launching into the reason he was there: he suspects Light of being the mysterious serial killer "Kira." In the above clip, Light is surprised by L suddenly approaching him at the darkened cafe where he's studying. Aided by the Shinigami god that owns the notebook, and hunted by a genius detective L ( LaKeith Stanfield), Light makes it his mission to rid the world of criminals who have unjustly evaded the law - even if it means killing innocents who get in the way.
But Netflix has handily released a clip of the two foes' first meeting in anticipation for Adam Wingard's film's premiere this later month.ĭeath Note follows a brilliant but bored high school student, Light ( Nat Wolff) who finds a mysterious "Death Note" which he discovers allows him to kill anyone whose name he writes in it. Could the meeting of Light, the vigilante protagonist of Netflix's adaptation of the popular anime Death Note, and L, the idiosyncratic detective hunting him, live up to those expectations? But given that fan reception and critical reception seems to be frosty at best, I don't see this happening.ĮDIT: Full disclosure, this was a repost of my comment in the other discussion thread.First meetings between nemeses are often the watershed moment upon which whole movies hang: Batman and the Joker, Hannibal and Clarice - the list goes on. If Adam Wingard will be back on board, I can't wait to see it. Since the movie ends with room open for a sequel, there's always a chance for Death Note 2. Netflix really did let Adam Wingard go nuts, so if you like Wingard's earlier works, you'll probably love Death Note. I thought that Keith Stanfield did a really good job of re-interpreting L for a live action medium while putting his own spin on it.īut the best thing about this movie was that it was definitely a Adam Wingard movie. Comic book L only really works in the medium of manga, because if you translate every single tic of his onto the big screen, he just looks like a caricature of a mentally handicapped savant. While Keith Stanfield wasn't the most comic-loyal L (he's more emotional than his comic counterpart), I liked his interpretation of the character. I couldn't help but smile when I heard The Power of Love pop up. I noticed that people in this subreddit are pretty divided over the song choices, personally, I loved the 80's vibe of the soundtrack and the John Carpenter style synth soundtrack. Whether it was Nat Wolff's screaming, Ryuk's off-color humor or the hilariously Rube-Goldberg style over-the-top death sequences, this movie was a good time. Problems aside, I loved how funny and campy the movie was.
I felt like L's meeting with Light inside the cafe was too abrupt, and it should have been set up better. In fact, that was probably my biggest problem with the movie, it didn't spend enough time on exposition, or on developing characters or certain events in the story. I also felt like the movie should have spent more time on the "rules of the Death Note". Ryuk's introduction was a little bit rushed, as was Light's and Mia's. The reason being that I felt that the movie was just trying to rush through the first act. However, I did find the first act a little bit hard to watch. With all that will be said, I liked most of the movie. And since I knew that this was going to be a movie inspired by the source material, and I had no problems with the filmmakers taking creative liberties, so I wasn't turned off by the changes they made to the story or to the characters. I liked it, with some reservations of course.Īs a fan of the Death Note manga (I used to buy Formosa Jump issues with when Death Note was still serialized) and as a fan of Adam Wingard, I was on board immediately.
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