jeeap To those who thinks it's just another vampire story made with Hollywood trademark approach. No way. This movie goes much deeper in its plot. If it escapes from you then it's probably because your personal world is set in stone and it's not reacting anymore to the signals from Reality )) The Night Watch basically says: there's no Good or Evil in Nature. We, the people, made them up. Just like almost everything else )) It's easy to imagine the Universe where our official righteousness would be considered a crime. And vice versa. The movie itself is good. It has your attention right after you start watching it. And its director, Timur, is one of my favorites. He succeeds at mixing commercial and true art parts in his works. Which is a rare talent. He even manages to make people read titles at the end ))

Leofwine_draca What is it about Russian films? The day after watching the original SOLARIS, which I'd heard was so good and ended up hating, I sat down to watch NIGHT WATCH, which I'd heard was a masterful blockbuster, a breath of originality in a world over-saturated by endless Hollywood vampire films. It isn't. In fact, it isn't even a good film, and it displays no uniqueness to make it Russian. From the director's awfully flashy, MTV-style directing – all cool zooms and sweeps and special effects with lots of sound and noise, signifying nothing – to the predictable nature of the storyline and the desire to rip off or reference just about ALL major Hollywood productions in this genre – I recognised UNDERWORLD, LORD OF THE RINGS, THE MATRIX, and GHOSTBUSTERS(!) in this, and I'm sure there were many more – NIGHT WATCH is a real bore.The story is the same old nonsense – humans and vampires have been at war for centuries, yadda yadda yadda, I saw all this in UNDERWORLD which wasn't very good, but a darned sight better than the clichés on display here. It kicks off with a cheesy battle sequence before delivering a storyline in the modern day which couldn't be more boring: an uninteresting guy is enlisted in the ranks of the good guys, battling the evil vampires, and yet nothing happens. There's some stuff about a cursed woman and a blond-haired kid, and a supposedly awe-inspiring climax, but by the end we're back to where we were at the beginning with little story having been told. You just feel like you've wasted your time.Yes, there are flashes of inspiration. The owl that turns into a woman intrigued me, as well as having the vampires coming in and out of something called the Gloom, another dimension, which is pretty eerie. Yet the poor script and the over reliance on effects that just aren't that special made me want to turn off. All flashiness and no meat is what you get when you watch this film. A sequel, DAY WATCH, followed.

Creepy-Suzie Night Watch is one of those movies that teeters on the border of the horror genre and overlaps into fantasy or sci-fi. It is one of those rare movies where the cgi is actually a benefit. The dark imagery and sleek style alone make this film distinct. Even the subtitles are animated with such care that I was blown away by the attention to overall detail. In this respect, the subsequent Day Watch really dropped the ball. The story in Night Watch is complex and layered such that you can almost justify alternate meanings to the plot. Here I saw parallel universes where the past is ongoing aligned with the present. Adding to the mood of the film was the beautiful Russian dialect. Never watch a dubbed film. It ruins the essence entirely. The direction was eloquent and flowed like paint on canvas, the acting was believable, lighting was adequate, coloration was intense, there was constant movement, and the cgi was visually stunning. This is one of my favorite films and I have only seen the version mass marketed to the US. I understand there is a superior version marketed abroad.

Rectangular_businessman This movie was incredibly ridiculous and way Over-the-Top.In all the scenes from "Night Watch", there was something incredibly weird happening, and those weird things were presented in the cheesiest manner that somebody could imagine. And of course, none of those scenes made sense, being mostly a poorly written mess which combines in an awful way several elements from other stories and films (Such as "Underworld", "The Matrix", "Van Helsing", "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and even "Ghostbusters") but without any kind of interesting value, being both muddled and idiotic.I never read the book in which this was inspired, so I couldn't make a comparison between the two, but all what I can say that this is one of the dumbest movies that I've seen in my life. And yet, it is not even entertaining.The only redeeming quality of this film were a couple of visually interesting scenes, but that's it. I didn't care at all about the story and the characters from this movie (Which were mostly a bunch of tired clichés anyway)This movie was complete mess from beginning to end.