Review; Netflix Movie adaptation of Death Note manga

On Friday Netflix released Death Note, a movie based on Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, and views are really having a field day. It has been called from disgusting, whitewashed, hasty, and rapid adaptation to "a good-enough".  

Director Adam Wingard has robbed Death Note of its identity, messing up nearly everything that made the original series so compelling. Clio Chang, The New Repubic

The plot revolves around young and smart Light Turner, who happens to be sitting outside when a worn out diary just drops down from the sky. It allows him to kill bad guys by writing their names and picturing their faces when he pens down the name. Now the first guy he kills, rather reluctantly, putting his name in the dairy, happens to be a bully, who put him in detention. Next, he met Mia, the girls on fire. Together they kill 400 bad guys, under the pseudo name "Kira" that gets them the attention of almost every person in the world. What they do not know, they got an over-enthusiastic boy-cum-detective hell-bent on revealing the identity of "Kira". 

The movie itself is not bad but the influence of people who read the manga and have spent some time with the animated series, says otherwise. Some can't get over the fact that despite the series being Japanese in origin, there is no Japanese cast member. While others think that the producers have ruined the character of Light Yagami. The cold and calculating Light  Yagami character has been replaced with a scream-queen Light Turner. 

Rotten tomato rates the movies at around 43 % whereas audience rating is around 26 %.  Some critics reviews say;

Essentially, Death Note is a serialized detective drama in which two strange wise guys face off to prove their superior wits. It's not that deep. Justin Charity, The ringer

A lot of people felt that the movie turn out to be a dud solely because manga demanded time and effort. That isn't just possible here. It has been a very rare that a series can be distilled into a great movie. Twilight, Harry Potter series are merely two such examples. And some reviewers do share the same opinion; 

Cramming several tons of plot into a one-pound screenplay, the three writers ... have little option but to condense. That said, Mr. Wingard's eye for a stylish image hasn't dimmed.  Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

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