I'm not a big fan of the 'vampire' genre. Fortunately this movie isn't the traditional vampire type movie like Blade with lots of neck biting, blood sucking and wooden stakes. The vampire theme isn't really the main focus of the movie.The plot echoes the classic theme of supernatural beings conducting a secret war behind the curtain of human history, as seen in films such as Highlander (1986), Blade (1998) and Underworld (2003). In Night Watch, this secret war opposes two different kinds of vampires: the Forces of Light and the Forces of the Dark. Centuries ago, a truce put an end to the open war that had been raging between the two forces. According to this truce, the Forces of Light would secretly rule the daytime, while the Forces of the Dark would be free to roam at night. Ever since, “Watchers” with special powers have been monitoring the activity of the other side, trying to interfere with its schemes to seize complete power…
Day Watch is the sequel in the Watch trilogy and came out this year in Russia. Fox Searchlight apparently bought the rights and Night Watch opened recently in US theatres. But from reading it sounds like they cut out some stuff and generally fucked it up in traditional Fox fashion. It does have cool subtitles though that have been described as 'revolutionary'. I haven't seen them myself so not sure how true that is. Unfortunately, rumor has it that Fox is recasting the third movie and it will be shot in English so you'll have all new actors. That's a bit lame. That's like Return of the King having a whole new cast. But still to early to know exactly what they'll be doing.
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Reviews seem a bit mixed on these two movies, but I generally enjoyed them even though I was a bit lost at times. They seem to mix a lot of elements and overall do a good job at it.
8/10. Probably more towards 7.5 but I like to round up. It's better than Matrix, anyway!
(Nochnoy Dozor and Dnevnoy Dozor are the Russian titles)
