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Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L. Written by Warner Bros. Pictures
I honestly don't have hope for western remakes of Japanese classics. Western media companies consistently, for decades, have destroyed everything they try to remake.
While casting whites into Asian roles is part of it. I think the problem is deeper. They simply do not respect nor do they understand the source material.
That brings me to this review. It's awful on every level. Whatever brilliance was found in the source material has been grounded up and turned into spam.
What comes out is juvenile yet overly confusing.
It's the worst of both worlds.
It is simultaneously ambitious in its vision yet moronic in execution.
Very strange combination.
The deeper topics that made the original material so revered is bastardized into an unrecognizable form. What comes out is a convoluted mess that doesn't know what it wants to be.
Save your time. Check out the source material. You'll be glad that you did.
Final verdict 2/10