So, when
you’re adapting a story from another medium, how much of the story do you need
to be willing to change in order to accommodate the running time and iron out
areas where things don’t translate well onto the big screen? There’s no easy
answer to this question, but we’re here to look at an example of how a small
change can make things go horribly wrong.
I did a
lengthy retrospective on the anime based on the manga, now I’m going to take a
look at the first 2 movies (I’m not doing that L movie, I’ll explain why in the
next review) which came out before the anime also attempting to adapt the
manga.
Death Note
was released in Japan in June 2006 making a decent $41million in the country,
it was later distributed across the world making what I assume would be plenty
of money. Given the release date of the sequel, and where this movie stops,
it’s fair to assume the sequel was already into production when this was released.
So, why is
it worthy of a rage review? Well prepare yourselves as we dive in.
