Death Note: Light Up the NEW World vs The Arrival

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World has the higher audience score (6.5/10 against 6/10 for The Arrival). The Arrival is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 14m. The Arrival is the older of the two (1996 against 2016). Both are horror, science fiction, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World posterDeath Note: Light Up the NEW World2016 VS The Arrival posterThe Arrival1996
Death Note: Light Up the NEW WorldThe Arrival
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 6.0/10
Year20161996
Length2h 14m1h 55m
GenresCrime, Horror, Science Fiction, ThrillerHorror, Science Fiction, Thriller
CountryJapan–
DirectorShinsuke SatoDavid Twohy
Main castTatsuya Fujiwara, Miyuki Sawashiro, Masahiro Higashide, Sosuke Ikematsu, Masaki SudaRichard Schiff, Teri Polo, Leon Rippy, Phyllis Applegate, Charlie Sheen

Synopsis

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous…

The Arrival

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

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