Netflix's Death Note movie tried to crack the code of successfully creating a Hollywood adaptation of a popular anime, but according to early reviews of the film, the experiment falls short.

You can read the roundup of early reviews below. Director Adam Wingard (You're Next, Blair Witch) creates an offbeat horror-romance-comedy with the film, which follows a boy named Light Turner (Nat Wolff) who finds a mysterious book called The Death Note which grants him the power to kill anyone whose name he writes in it. When Light begins using the power for his own vigilante purposes, he attracts the attention of a methodical detective named "L" (Lakeith Stanfield).

The cast includes Paper Towns star Nat Wolff as Light; The Leftovers star Margaret Qualley as his love interest, Mia; Atlanta and Get Out star Lakeith Stanfield as "L"; Fargo's Shea Whigham as Light's father; and Willem Dafoe as The Death Note's "death god," Ryuk.