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Death Note

2006Movie2 h 6 minR

Mystery
75
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.5Letterboxd3.1/5Rotten Tomatoes78%82%
75
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.5Letterboxd3.1/5Rotten Tomatoes78%82%

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Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

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  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Keeps you guessing.
  • Pulls you in.
  • Feels like real life.

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Adaptation Distillationin 1,957 titlesThe first two films streamlined the series in order to fit the entire story into two movies; in doing so, they jettisoned a fair amount of the excessive plot-and-counterplot (-and-countercounterplot-…An Aesopin 1,379 titlesIn the climax of the second film, Soichiro delivers the ultimate message of the series: all justice systems (legally recognized or otherwise) are imperfect because they are made by imperfect people,…All 20 tropes

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Film 1 of 4 · then Death Note: The Last Name

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