#StokerScore 2/10
My knowledge of Anime is limited at best. I am very fond of the Vampire Hunter D animation and I'm aware of other titles but it's just not something I spend a great deal of time on. So I came to Netflix's latest movie, Death Note, knowing zilch about the subject matter but loving the visuals of the Demon/Death God voiced by Willem Dafoe.
The story is pretty simple once you get past the convenience of how the imaginatively named Light Turner gets the Death Note book (I know how that sounds) in the first place. But this is complicated by, at times, incoherent speaking by Light and his girlfriend Mia. Fortunately the diction of Lakeith Steinfield's character, who is known by the singular initial L, and Dafoe's Ryuk help to navigate some more of the plot.
Even with these two performances and the able support of Shea Whigham, it's badly explained to the point that even now I couldn't truly explain it without repeat viewings and a search of the source material.
What I did feel while viewing is imagine if you could hear fate talking about the gruesome deaths in the Final Destination movies and you get an idea of what's taking place....but without knowing the motivations for any character.
Could have been really good, such a shame.
