Death Note (2006)
or is it 2007? Which one is it huh?
Cast : Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Erika Toda, Shin Shimizu
Director : Shusuke Kaneko
Aku belum berkesempatan nak tengok Death Note 1 but Death Note 2 really stands on it’s own. Kata orang lah kan. Bagi aku, ada advantagenya kalau nak tengok filem sequel macam ni tapi kalau dah this movie can stand on it’s own, so kalau korang tak tengok pun tak apa lah jugak. So, pada sesiapa yang tak tengok Death Note 1 (macam aku!), takde apa yang perlu nak dirisaukan sebab ko akan faham apa itu Nota Kematian, Tuhan Kematian dan apa sebenarnya Death Note is all about.
Death Note bukan cerita seram @ hantu yang menakutkan tapi satu cerita yang bijak. Bijak, dari segi, it allows the viewers to think and to play along the movie very well. Bijak nak fikirkan twist and turn dalam movie ni yang, aku rasa, disampaikan dengan cukup baik.
Kalau sesiapa yang dah tengok Death Note 1, aku rasa tak perlu pun baca perenggan ni tapi for the benefit of those who haven’t seen the movie, here’s what Death Note is all about. Death Note is a notebook yang membolehkan “tuan”nya untuk membunuh sesiapa aje dengan menulis nama kat dalan buku nota tu.
Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara) picked up the first Death Note in the first movie. So, watak dia agak crucial dalam movie ni. He is a law students who started a killing-rampage who uses the notebook to assume the identity of Kira, a god who punishes criminals with sudden and mysterious death. It was hard catching his emotions but I think this is important as he is the owner of the first Death Note. His smiles might be a killing one and his expressions might be contradicted. Creepy huh?
Cuma, dalam sambungan ni, Nota Kematian kedua dah dijatuhkan ke atas bumi dan dimiliki oleh seorang perempuan. Adoi! Kalau dah jatuh ke tangan perempuan, memang parah lah dibuatnya. This lady, Misa went on the same killing rampage just so that she can meet up with Kira. Dalam movie ni, Light telah bergabung tenaga dengan L, his arch nemesis (and a weirdo mysterious detective) with the intention just to kill him. Eventhough he joined forces with L, he played his cards well in hiding his identity as Kira. Both are insanely intelligent with L a little bit weirdo. He has strange mannerism and idiosyncrasy. He lacks in building human relationships and showing emotions but he is blessed with a criminal-like mind that allows him to think like one.
What follows is a plot and planning by both rival geniuses. How Kira uses the new Kira to eliminate the enemy and kepentingan diri sendiri, L tries to prove that Light and Misa are really the owner of Death Note and how Light tried to turn the table around to outsmart L’s wit.
Macam yang aku katakana tadi, this is an intelligent movie but maybe what bothers me the most is that this movie is a little bit slow.
Aku paling suka dengan lagu Red Hot Chilli Peppers yang difeaturekan didalam movie ni. One more thing, the on-screen chemistry between the 2 heroes was flawless and superb. Sampaikan it makes Misa invisible. I read somewhere that it was fun to see them share more scenes this time around, secretly plotting against each other. Hmmm.. aku kena tengok the first installmentlah kalau macam ni.
The twist in the story was good. The plot, even though slow, but it was good. The intelligence of the movie also lies in script-wise selain dari premis-premis penggambaran yang aku anggap kool. Cuma satu perkara je, aku tak berapa suka momentum penghujung cerita ni yang aku rasa sikit lembab. Eventhough the pace of the movie was a little bit fast in the beginning of the movie, 75% after the movie started; it all begins to be slow. Mungkin ia dibuat sedemikian to allow both Light to place the card on the table first and then followed by L to show hands.
Is killing using the Death Note was worthy enough to ensure a better society commandable? Personally for me it’s not. There’s no highway in life and fighting crime takes more than all that. If things were as easy as that, then what are the purpose human revolutions, renaissance of time, human-race and civilization itself? Nobody should be an idealist and think that the world should be an ideal place. If that wasn’t the case, the police would be out of job by now. It might sound ridiculous but this is what the movie is all about.
All in all, it is an interesting movie to watch and it’s really worth checking out.
Aku kasi **** / *****
Cast : Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Erika Toda, Shin Shimizu
Director : Shusuke Kaneko
Aku belum berkesempatan nak tengok Death Note 1 but Death Note 2 really stands on it’s own. Kata orang lah kan. Bagi aku, ada advantagenya kalau nak tengok filem sequel macam ni tapi kalau dah this movie can stand on it’s own, so kalau korang tak tengok pun tak apa lah jugak. So, pada sesiapa yang tak tengok Death Note 1 (macam aku!), takde apa yang perlu nak dirisaukan sebab ko akan faham apa itu Nota Kematian, Tuhan Kematian dan apa sebenarnya Death Note is all about.
Death Note bukan cerita seram @ hantu yang menakutkan tapi satu cerita yang bijak. Bijak, dari segi, it allows the viewers to think and to play along the movie very well. Bijak nak fikirkan twist and turn dalam movie ni yang, aku rasa, disampaikan dengan cukup baik.
Kalau sesiapa yang dah tengok Death Note 1, aku rasa tak perlu pun baca perenggan ni tapi for the benefit of those who haven’t seen the movie, here’s what Death Note is all about. Death Note is a notebook yang membolehkan “tuan”nya untuk membunuh sesiapa aje dengan menulis nama kat dalan buku nota tu.
Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara) picked up the first Death Note in the first movie. So, watak dia agak crucial dalam movie ni. He is a law students who started a killing-rampage who uses the notebook to assume the identity of Kira, a god who punishes criminals with sudden and mysterious death. It was hard catching his emotions but I think this is important as he is the owner of the first Death Note. His smiles might be a killing one and his expressions might be contradicted. Creepy huh?
Cuma, dalam sambungan ni, Nota Kematian kedua dah dijatuhkan ke atas bumi dan dimiliki oleh seorang perempuan. Adoi! Kalau dah jatuh ke tangan perempuan, memang parah lah dibuatnya. This lady, Misa went on the same killing rampage just so that she can meet up with Kira. Dalam movie ni, Light telah bergabung tenaga dengan L, his arch nemesis (and a weirdo mysterious detective) with the intention just to kill him. Eventhough he joined forces with L, he played his cards well in hiding his identity as Kira. Both are insanely intelligent with L a little bit weirdo. He has strange mannerism and idiosyncrasy. He lacks in building human relationships and showing emotions but he is blessed with a criminal-like mind that allows him to think like one.
What follows is a plot and planning by both rival geniuses. How Kira uses the new Kira to eliminate the enemy and kepentingan diri sendiri, L tries to prove that Light and Misa are really the owner of Death Note and how Light tried to turn the table around to outsmart L’s wit.
Macam yang aku katakana tadi, this is an intelligent movie but maybe what bothers me the most is that this movie is a little bit slow.
Aku paling suka dengan lagu Red Hot Chilli Peppers yang difeaturekan didalam movie ni. One more thing, the on-screen chemistry between the 2 heroes was flawless and superb. Sampaikan it makes Misa invisible. I read somewhere that it was fun to see them share more scenes this time around, secretly plotting against each other. Hmmm.. aku kena tengok the first installmentlah kalau macam ni.
The twist in the story was good. The plot, even though slow, but it was good. The intelligence of the movie also lies in script-wise selain dari premis-premis penggambaran yang aku anggap kool. Cuma satu perkara je, aku tak berapa suka momentum penghujung cerita ni yang aku rasa sikit lembab. Eventhough the pace of the movie was a little bit fast in the beginning of the movie, 75% after the movie started; it all begins to be slow. Mungkin ia dibuat sedemikian to allow both Light to place the card on the table first and then followed by L to show hands.
Is killing using the Death Note was worthy enough to ensure a better society commandable? Personally for me it’s not. There’s no highway in life and fighting crime takes more than all that. If things were as easy as that, then what are the purpose human revolutions, renaissance of time, human-race and civilization itself? Nobody should be an idealist and think that the world should be an ideal place. If that wasn’t the case, the police would be out of job by now. It might sound ridiculous but this is what the movie is all about.
All in all, it is an interesting movie to watch and it’s really worth checking out.
Aku kasi **** / *****
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