Not a great movie, but a good approach of what the manga was. Central themes are here and it's what matter the most, saddly, it suffers from the characters being too different form what they were in the original and for that, the fanboys won't stop to hate it.

I have never watched the anime but I loved the movie. It was everything scary and funny and suspenseful I would definetly reccomend this to people who like thrillers it is a great movie

While Death Note (2017) certainly doesn't hit nearly as many highs as the original series, it's charming in its own way.

I personally enjoyed the movie. (I have never watched the anime.); However, I knew a little bit of the background behind the series. As a new comer it is a fresh idea for a movie. It actually peaked my interest in the actual anime. The twists were done well in my honest opinion. Ryuk looked awesome. If judging by accuracy to the anime, I can not say much. If looking at it from a new comer perspective, it is actually a really good movie. I can see why the rating were low if it didn't accurately touch with the anime' s following. However, from a new comer...I don't see any reason to give this movie a bad score. The acting was done well, scenes were done well, and the twists were executed well (I honestly didn't see the twists coming). All in all, if you are a newcomer and would like a fresh story in a movie, this is a good one. Would be sad if the "anime fans" killed the possibility for sequals. I would really like this to continue into a few movie series.I give it 4 Stars because there are a few things that could be worked on, even from a new comers perspective.

Weird ..it?s told like a school project crossed with a crime drama.

On s'en fout que le film soit si différent de l'histoire originalC'EST UN ADAPTATION

It's an almost inherently engrossing premise that's employed to progressively hit-and-miss effect by director Adam Wingard...

...the film never goes into the deeper, more fascinating concepts that it could've tackled, which feels like a missed opportunity.

It's more cat-and-mouse suspense than out-and-out frightfest, but it is well worth your time this Nerdoween for a twisting, turning story of twisted morality and murders most foul.

It's probably not going to win over the Manga faithful, but Death Note is entertaining fun despite its failings.

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.

Death Note has plenty of faults, but watched with the brain firmly in the "off" position, it becomes easy to enjoy.

The aesthetic recovery by the director and excellent secondary characters (Willem Dafoe is always a wise way to scare), should be enough so that even the most orthodox shinigami remain calm. [Full review in Spanish]

As far as Hollywood remakes go, this version of Death Note will not leave you itching to scribble director Adam Wingard's name into any tome.

Everything from the style to the substance is spot on here and Wingard shepherds in his very different vision of the manga beautifully, it's just crammed into too small a time-space to really make an effect.