Death Note: The Last Name
Thanks to the young lady Reta who gave me some premier tickets to this fantastic show, I wouldn’t have gone to watch Death Note otherwise, especially after the horrid experience with the last Japanese show I watched in the cinema - Forbidden Siren.
In a nutshell, the story revolves around a brilliant student (Light) who picked up a death note that was dropped by a Shinigami (Death God). If a name is written in the book, the person will die in the next 40 seconds. Light wanted to get rid of evil and started using the book to kill off convicted criminals, gaining a reputation as Kira. But since he was taking justice solely from his own judgment, the police soon recruited the help of a famous detective, L, to stop Kira. The two then tries to outsmart each other, Light trying to kill L, and L trying to figure out who is Kira and to catch him.
The movie actually takes off from where the first one left off. If you did not watch the first Death Note (corresponding to anime series 1-7), the second (the rest of the anime) would still be very good, but might be a little confusing at first. Grab a DVD of the first Death Note, then go to the cinema for the 2nd.
This is by far the best non-anime Japanese movies I have ever watched. An interesting premise with a very smart story line full of brilliant twists. The ending might be a little dark, I get the feeling like I did while watching arguably last year’s best show - The Prestige. Go watch it, it’s awesome.
This movie currently gets 7.1/10 at imdb, and you can find a lot more information at wikipedia:Death Note.
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By suanie on Jan 24, 2007 | Reply
best movie so far!!!
By Kelvin on Jan 24, 2007 | Reply
indeed superb. MisaMisa!!!
By Paul Tan on Jan 24, 2007 | Reply
i love this movie. and the girl SO KIUT OMG.
By KY on Jan 24, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, misa misa is very kawai. On a related note, I came out of the cinema and saw a Shinigami walking in front of me, but he turned out to be Jack0
By mrs jeff buckley on Jan 24, 2007 | Reply
HAAHHAHAHAHA@jacko shinigami
you’re most welcome =)
By sotong on Jan 24, 2007 | Reply
Love this show… will collect the DVDs and also the anime
yay!
By jack0 on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
ooOoi… ç§ã»ã‚“ã¨ã«æ»ç¥ž?
By FireAngel on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
Apperently anime goes on forever and pointless. movie they summarise everything in 2 hours - more time efficient hahaha.
For someone who’s never watched the anime or read the manga, I really liked Death Note 1. It was refreshing and pretty damn decent.
can’t wait to watch DN2 now.
By stupe on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
seeing how the actors and actresses all look alike is already a horror movie by itself.
By KY on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
stupe,
Saying they look alike is like saying all Africans look alike.
By Noto on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
yes yes~! support~! nice movie indeed… but just tat da guy they found to cast as Light is too ‘kind looking’ i think… but his cast in is superb~ haha… i used to read da comic book of death note… but there’s really too many words to read… got lazy n gave da 1st 3 books i bought to my fren… hahaha
By suanie on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
Noto: on the contrary, i found Light to be scheming and conniving. in cantonese his face is called ‘kan’
By Kelvin on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
Tetsuya Fujiwara (Yagami Light) is a versatile actor. i didn’t like him in Battle Royale (where he was a crying pussy) but as Light, he did a good job
By Dabido (Teflon) on Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
Suanie - his face has a name too?
KY - Make note to self, don’t put name in front cover of note book!
‘This book is property of KY’ could prove fatal.
By Rene on Jan 26, 2007 | Reply
Death Note also came out on Anime. Its a new anime… can download fm somewhere.
By laura on Jan 27, 2007 | Reply
welcome to DN world..
after watch DN1 i absolutely hooked.. i finished read all 108 episode of DN manga within 2 days.. tiring but awesome!!!!!!
cant wait for its dvd!!
By Lawliet Lerng on Feb 9, 2007 | Reply
Yeah~I like this movie very much!!!!!
In, Death Note,I prefer L (Ken’chi Matsuyama)!
By sandra on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
i luv this movie so much!!!!
its the best movie ever.
L is verry cute n real inteligent
kekex
By KY on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
sandra,
Yeah, awesome show.
By bob on May 22, 2008 | Reply
that is the best movie EVER. bottom line. I just can’t wait to see L Change the World. I’m a serious L fan so that will probably be my new favorite movie. L IS AWESOME!!!!!! That is all.
By KY on May 22, 2008 | Reply
bob,
I heard L change the world isn’t so great though!