Panoramic Viewer I watched both movies and i feel my time was totally wasted.There is no plot whatsoever -- both movies drift aimlessly in pointlessness. Countless characters are introduced, subplots and back-stories are attempted, but, all-in-all, the movie ends up being a big, big mess. At the beginning, there is a promise of an impending doom, but alas you will be just as wise in the end. Anyway, at least, we now know, how the "Lord of the Rings" would be, if Tolkien was *just* trying to look cool.Skip this one, if you tend to use your brain while watching. There is plenty of good SciFi/fantasy movies out there.

Imdbidia Anton Gorodetsky is in the night watch working with his lover Svetlana. He finds himself in the middle of an approaching conflict between the forces of the Light and the Dark due to his trying to destroy evidences against his son Yegor, who is in the dark side. His actions are a breech of the weak truce that keeps both the Day and Night Forces at peace.This is the sequel to Night Watch, a movie that I haven't watched and, after watching this film, I will never do.Day Watch is a moronic senseless and pretentious film, with mediocre and pedestrian acting, and good special effects. The movie is boring since the beginning, a long agony to watch through til the end. It is badly edited, with a poor direction of actors, a stupid script, and clichéd images. Day Watch is a collection of film sins that cannot be ignored, and that should be used in film schools to demonstrate what not to do when directing.The movie, and the director, could be excused if the movie was a low budget film with amateur actors but this is, instead, a Russian super-production with some good actors. Some bad movies really make you laugh, or at least they are entertaining, so at least you get something out of them. But this is not the case here, as the movie is pretentious and serious beyond belief even in those scenes that are supposed to be funny.One of the worse films I have seen for a long time. It is difficult to understand why such a stupid bad film has a rating of 6.5.The best thing about the film? The poster and the special effects.

matt-viscasillas The movies production was fantastic. The subtitle interaction with the action of the movie was phenomenal. I liked the dark intense feel of their world, using the magic sparsely. A lot of the Hollywood crap was left out, however, saying that, the movie lacked a lot, namely Paranoia of post-soviet Russia, investigation and constant angst.By that I mean the plot of the book. I haven't seen NightWatch yet, but I read all three books, and after seeing DayWatch, I can only hope that Nightwatch would be more faithful to the original story. The mash-up of characters and their plot lines was borderline insulting. Anton, in the book was a light one who questioned the need for the two sides and the inquisition. Anton, in the movie had previously struck a deal w/ a witch to have his ex-wife hurt/murdered? No no, this was another character altogether in the books. I felt betrayed by the dual-sided nature of Anton in the movie, granted him being a pawn of both sides did carry through well, however it seemed he really rode the line of dark and light. The imagery of the "gloom" or "twilight" as the English adaptation of the book calls it, used little fly like bugs, but with all the CG in the movie, they could have kept it gray and gloomy instead of a surreal sped up version of the real world. The love plot between a dark one and a vampire mashed up a couple different plot lines and had they stuck to the story, the movie could have been bigger than the Matrix, or Lord of the Rings, both in Russia and here in the US.The stories are so in-depth and well imagined that they lend themselves to movie adaptation. All-in-all, a great,if not a bit rushed, action-fantasy flick, but a very disappointing adaptation from book to movie.

lastliberal A supernatural film that is the sequel to Night Watch. Anton (Konstantin Khabenskiy) is part of the forces of light, but his son Yegor (Dmitriy Martynov) has been captured by the forces of dark.He has to find a way to save him with letting his trainee Svetlana (Mariya Poroshina) know what is going on. He must find the Chalk of Fate.Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) gives us a film that is sometimes hard to follow, but never boring. Super CGI, and some things that I have never seen in a typical Hollywood movie.The Boss's (Vladimir Menshov) plan to protect Anton from the Dark Others was ingenious, to say the least. Glad Olga (Galina Tyunina) was so understanding. It does get very funny when Anton next gets together with Svetlana.But, of course, it doesn't work as planned, and Zavulon (Viktor Verzhbitskiy)the head of the Dark Others, goes after him. Boy, you have to watch out when this guy gets p*ssed! Things continue to get strange, as you would expect in a supernatural film.It is easy to see why Timur Bekmambetov was selected to direct Wanted, and why he will be back in Wanted 2, and Twilight Watch (Night Watch 3).