L; Change The World

So,, Recently the movie L; Change The World came out on DVD in the UK, having loved the first 2 Death Note movies and since I loved the character L, I was really excited to buy it. So I went to HMV on the first day of its release and had to get one of their staff to go find it from their stock room. The DVD was £16.99 for the 2 Disc special edition. I first watched the film on my own one night and I had a brilliant time watching this movie.

The Film starts off with Naomi from the first 2 films, still alive, Watari and Light are also still alive. We then see the scene of  L writing his own name in the Death Note and showing it to Watari. We also see the scene of Watari's death, and the scene after the death of Kira with the burning of the Death Notes. Then starts the plot of this film, which starts with the extermination of a small vilage in Thailand that is infected with a highly deadly and infectious disease, the American Goverment destroy the village as to prevent the disease from spreading but some-one is using the virus as a weapon. An antidote to the virus is made but is destroyed along with the creator, who is father of a young girl, Maki. Maki and a Survivor of the village (Boy) are sent to Watari's care, but after Watari's death L looks after them and they help L solve the case to Change The World.  The story of this film is rather interesting but it does not have the intelligence of a battle of two geniuses like the Death Note films did, but it is a good film and the plot is not that bad at all. I loved the story as we got to see a different side of L but if you are looking for deep intelligent plots with secrecy this is not exactly the film for you, but if you love L and any film he is in you will love this!

Ken'ichi Matsuyama plays L, as he did in the first 2 films, and he plays L with such excellence that L is now his character, I cant imagine anybody else playing him. The character L is a complicated young man, he was raised in an orphanage so has never felt close of loving to anyone except Watari who was like his father so when he is suddenly incharge of two young children, he finds it hard to understand them and feel close to them until the end. Ken'ichi played this role perfectly, as the director of ths film said "As Ken'ichi is in the original cast he knows the character so well that he does what he thinks for the role and I seem like an observer and agree with what he does, this is his character he knows what to do right." As you can probably tell, L is my favourite character of the Death Note Trilogy as i love his Oddness and how he is so smart and his love of sugar. and he really is still excellent in this film, L lovers will not be dissapointed.

The Other Characters in the film play their characters really well, the character Maki[ who was played by Mayuko Fukuda was 14 during filming] played her part excellently and gave a very convincing and well acted performance, also the actor who played BOY/Near did some amazing actor to say he's so young and that he had to speak english even though the actor is Japanese. Misa Amane, Light Yagami and Watari also played Cameo's in the film.
Overall I thought that the plot of the film could have been better but that the characters/actors were amazing,
I would rate this film 8.5/10 =]