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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:54 pm
This is an absolutly fabulous Russian film. It's a bit complicated (there are some parts where I was just like "..."). I've been told that it all makes sense if you've read the book. Unfortunatly, the book hasn't been translated into English yet.
The basic plot is this: The world was divided up into two groups, Night and Day (Black and White). To keep the evil Night in check, the Light side has appointed people to "police" the night. They decide who the vampires get to take as victims and so forth.
It sounds very dualistic which I usually hate in movies. It's just so unrealistic to think of things as either totally good or totally evil. That's one of the things I love about this movie. There's a good side that really isn't all that good, and an evil side that really isn't all that evil. And it all doubles up as a brilliant commentary on bureaucracy.
I absolutly loved the style of the movie. It was dark and almost cartoonistic. It reminded me of movies like La Cite Des Enfant Perdu or Dark City. The colours were absolutly beautiful.
I highly recommend this movie. If nothing else, it's good fun!
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:12 pm
The US release poster looks AMAZING.
It's coming to the Ritz and I'm excited for it!
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:48 pm
The sequel (Day Watch) was released last month in Russia! I'm really excited for its release over here smile
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:56 pm
I gave it 3/5 stars. There were people at the screening that just HATED IT. I thought it was okay, though. There were some really awesome CG scenes.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:19 pm
Were they hissing and booing? Do you know why they hated it so much?
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:20 pm
karomon Were they hissing and booing? Do you know why they hated it so much? Well, maybe the same reason why Lisa Schwarzbaum (EW Critic) hated it. She gave it an F. It failed her. Quote: A friend of mine who ran a revival theater described the nearly religious hush that would settle over an audience of Russian expatriates as they watched the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. His obscure mystical epics spoke their language in every way, and I couldn't help but wonder if a similar dynamic has powered Night Watch, a smashed mirror of a vampire film that set box office records in its native Russia. The movie I saw is a fractious fiasco: whiplash camera movement set to raging blasts of death metal, a story so incoherent it made me wish I was watching, instead, the collected outtakes from Van Helsing. The director, Timur Bekmambetov, knows how to speed a subway car in your face or impale a man's hand with a pair of scissors, yet there's no light or order to his morbid tricks. Then, too, maybe it's that frenzied hopelessness that audiences in Russia responded to. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1159759_1_0_,00.html
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:14 am
Death metal? On the first one?
ROFL! If Umaturman or Okean Elzie is what she calls "raging death metal," she needs to get out more.
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