A wonderful Russian Action
Added 3/14/2009
Pleasantly suprised by the high quality of this Russian movie. Good story and great visuals.
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Movie is good, but kind of hard to follow. It's a "rent" or Netflix.
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Hold your horses...R1 DVD coming soon!!!
Added 8/6/2007
Just a heads up, the Pathfinder DVD has a intro preview of Day Watch and it says it's coming to DVD soon, so for those who might think of buying a R5 import, just hold off a little while.
I rate this review as 5 stars because the trailer on the Pathfinder DVD looked awesome. Much better than Night Watch.
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Incredible urban fantasy
Added 6/19/2007
The basics don't sound like anything special: "They" are among us, supernatural forces in opposition, poised for all-out war. Some object of huge mystical power is in play, the only thing that can save humanity from the vampires and others. You know, the usual.
That's the last thing that's usual about this outstanding movie. It's tight-paced - a cliche I might never use again, but if you miss a minute of this movie, you've missed something that matters. Effects are exceptional, from the minor touches you could miss up to set-pieces you will never forget. Some of the characters go almost (but not quite) over the top, possibly in terms of uniquely Russian stereotypes. Even the subtitles have a little extra going for them - a bit of fun that could easily have been driven into the ground.
Lots remains unexplained all the way to the end, but might have made sense if I had seen the first movie. No matter, it's dark, powerful, and exciting. And somehow, I think only a Russian creative team could bring such mastery to scenes of urban desolation.
-- wiredweird
(reviewing a subtitled theater presentation in the US - I'll move this review when there's a listing for that version)
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Could be a little better....
Added 10/24/2006
Well, not as impressive as the first one. Partly because Nightwatch (first part) showed off all the great ideas in their movie making.
Acting is much better that in Nightwatch.
Soundtrack could use some editing : sometimes action on the screen does not confirm to the music on top of that. Good followup story, but sometimes dialogs are too complex to follow. Seems like with this movie director falls to a trap of "short shots" 1-3 seconds shots - personaly for me it's a little annoying, but it's everyone's personal preference. Giving it four stars.
Great job - keep it up!
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V.
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'BORE WATCH'
Added 2/6/2010
**MINOR SPOILERS**
I immediately bought "Day Watch" the moment I learned that Timur Bekmambetov, of "Wanted" fame, directed it. Having enjoyed "Wanted" immensely, I had tremendously high hopes for "Day Watch", especially after I saw the action packed trailer, which featured some incredibly exciting imagery (you've no doubt seen it). Anyway, the movie begins with an explosive ancient battle scene that shows warriors on horseback bursting through stone fortress walls, and black hawks shape shifting into ninjas that drop from the sky...Awe inspiring stuff to be sure, but as the amazing opening sequence draws to an end, the movie takes on a completely new setting: Modern Moscow. We are introduced to a pair of characters; a man who is a veteran agent of a supernatural agency, and a blond rookie girl assigned to him. As they drive through the night, they receive a disturbance call involving a vampire. We next see that the vampire is an adolescent boy, who by pricking his victims with a needle, is then able to drink their blood from afar through a juice box (yes, you read that correctly). The trio somehow run into another dimension where physically transparent images of our own progress rapidly...The point I want to make here is that this stuff is not entertaining, only strange and often irritatingly ridiculous.
The handful of action scenes (besides the first) are boring and unorthodox (so much so, in fact, that I am hesitant to call them such), and the Russian made beats that accompany them are so overwhelmingly monotonous that I actually wished they would end prematurely! No Rob Zombie tunes, as played in the trailer!
It took considerable effort on my part to finish all 2hrs 10mins of "Day Watch", and I only appreciated a total of two scenes (one was a lesbian kiss).
Bottom line: If you are looking for a slow moving fantasy/romance plot without much in the way of excitement (visual or mental), then you have found your fun, but if you're yearning for another kick ass action FEAST like "Wanted" (as I was), then heed my advice, and steer clear of 'Bore Watch'; your five bucks is better spent elsewhere.
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Good Old School SciFi
Added 2/4/2010
Daywatch is totally original yet completely familiar. Good vs evil, special powers, alternate dimensions, it has it all. Definitely recomend it to fans of old school scifi like the Thing or Aliens.
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Killed by Plot Holes
Added 1/5/2010
When I saw Day Watch available on Netflix streaming I eagerly hit the play button on the Xbox 360 and sat down for what I hoped would be a couple hours of fantasy action movie enjoyment. What I found, unfortunately, was a movie that seemed to lose its way about a third of the way in and never did make enough sense to justify recommending it.
Something that Netflix failed to mention was that this is a sequel so it took me a while to catch up on the mythos of the fantasy world being portrayed. Even so, fans of fantasy will quickly catch up with and grasp the basics of the world of Day Watch. What I was never able to figure out were the amazing gaps in the story.
Why did Anton switch bodies if it would be so obvious to the Day Watch that he had done so? Where does Svetlana go for chunks of the movie? Why was Anton able to figure out the mystery of the chalk so easily - something that had been hidden for centuries? How could Svetlana's accidental bump of Yegor count as conflict, let alone cause him to bleed?
The story's gaps killed this movie for me. There are better foreign action films, like District B13. Go watch that instead if you are interested in good sci-fi fantasy action.
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