After watching the Netflix Death Note film

I will now spend the next 45 minutes telling you why this movie was trash. FP edit! Thank you guys for reassuring me that I'm not insane for thinking this. I will now give my aforementioned rant for the uninitiated. Sorry for formatting and grammar, I'm on mobile. ***spoilers*** What I liked - If you aren't a fan of the anime/manga then going in this is just another American supernatural teen drama. Nothing particularly special. It has some funny moments that stand out like meeting Ryok. It's well directed and well shot. The scenes with Ryok make the movie worth watching. The plot is thin compared to the anime but if you read into the implied motives and into the lines like Mia saying she's "just a cheerleader" which is why she's so enamored with all this power then you get a more complete story. What I didn't like - literally everything else. The first guy he kills is just some douchebag kid. They refer to him as a sociopath to justify it but that feels more like flavor text than reality. This was completely unnecessary emotional high school drama. Light (why the hell did they keep his name light for an American audience?) is a smart kid, but a mastermind he is not. Ryok seems more malicious in this adaptation which is the only reason I can see him giving Light the book. He's smart enough to not get caught for a little bit but eventually he's gonna get caught. Speaking of being smart...you're going to invite knock-off Kristin Stewart to accompany you on your murder spree five minutes after meeting her? My eyes got damaged from rolling them so hard at this. I haven't watched the anime in a while but I'm fairly sure several book rules are ignored. Notedly the "heart attack" rule. The way L "figures out" its Light works (sort of) but has no TRUE logic to it. What if Kira was setting light up? What if Kira was the dad? What if Kira was simply misdirecting them again like he did with the "Japanese" name? Nahhhhh, must just be light. And the coup de gras of garbage that this movie is...I didn't get to see light die at the end. This little shitbag deserved to die more than Light in the anime and i didn't get to see it. Shame. In summary - there's a lot more nit picking I could do but I'll just say this...they could have changed just a feeeeeew more things here or there and made this into a seperate story set in the same universe with Ryok tying it together. That would have been immensely more satisfying than the heap they tried to pass off as an adaptation.