the original manga is great. this adaption suffers from terrible CG and questionable actor's. you'd have to really like the source material or overacting live version in general to enjoy this.

Absolutely enthralling concept. Totally worth watching it in subtitles.

why did my mother buy this

Really can't fault this film. I've just finished watching the anime for the second time, and it's just so faithful towards it. Of course there are the odd little changes, but they still work so well. The acting is just perfect, and it's just a brilliant film. Love it.

This has to be one of my favorite movies I have ever seen.
As a huge fan of the manga, I was very excited to watch the live action movie. I think that the actors are very fitting for the roles (Also VERY attractive if I do say so myself) The movie though didn't end like the manga or the anime, which was a disappointment to many, but with me I personally like this ending better than the manga's and anime's ending. This is a movie that even now I can re-watch and still enjoy as much as I did when I first watched it.

"Death Note" can translate to live-action well, I am certain of it, this just is not it. Objectively, the film suffers in just about every category one could imagine from its pacing to its direction to its acting and so on. But perhaps the film's biggest flaw is its attempt to stay close to the source material despite the difference in medium.

Nowhere near as good as either the anime or the manga. Ridiculous acting. Scenes more or less taken directly from the anime. Don't watch it unless you're a death note zealot.

I never read the manga, but I was suprise to find a great supernatural cat and mouse detective story.

I like it because the story is somewhat different to the story of the animated series.
But the one pet peeve is Ryuk's overdub. He sounds more like a old Japanese man rather than a god of death.

A fascinating concept, well executed.