Death Note: The Last Name Review

Shusuke kaneko’s sequelto his hit tale of deities and poison pens ups the ante enough to make this faintly ridiculous fantasy-mystery worth catching. Picking up after the first flick, this finds a second Death Note (a book in which a scribbled name spells doom for whoever it belongs to) landing on Earth and the forces of good, led by L (Matsuyama), trying to discover the identity of the moniker-scrawling vigilante, Light (Fujiwara). Feeling like Infernal Affairs for role-playing gamers, there’s a cerebral thread that runs through this hokum, and despite an air of silliness there’s plenty of fun to be had.