Impressively directed with superb special effects, this is an action-packed fantasy flick that's actually more fun than the first film.
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10/06/07
Day Watch (2007)
63 %
Reviews Counted: 89 Fresh: 56 Rotten:33 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus:
Day Watch is frequently cheesy but it offers enough twists, surprises, and inventive action sequences to maintain viewer interest.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Theatrical Release: 05-10-2007
Synopsis: Featuring the cinematic vision of cutting-edge Director/Writer Timur Bekmambetov, DAY WATCH (DNEVNOI DOZOR) is the next installment based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko. When the previous installment, NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR), was released in its native... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina, Galina Tunina
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Screenwriter: Timur Bekmambetov, Alexander Talal, Sergei Lukyanenko
Producer: Konstantin Ernst, Anatoli Maksimov
Composer: Yuri Poteyenko
Screenwriter: Timur Bekmambetov, Alexander Talal, Sergei Lukyanenko
Producer: Konstantin Ernst, Anatoli Maksimov
Composer: Yuri Poteyenko
Reviews
Day Watch combines the action sequences of a John Woo blockbuster with wonderfully self-conscious humour and hardcore human interest.
10/05/07
Even during its action sequences it is slow, confusing and apparently interminable.
10/05/07
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A must-see for fans of the original, but a shorter running time and less energetic CGI excess might have done this flawed horror fantasy a serious favour.
10/05/07
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A disappointing follow-up to Timur Bekmambetov’s ground-cracking debut that still holds just enough explosiveness to blow a few fuses in your brain. Watch for the set-pieces (killer balls, car chases, power lines used as whips) and ignore the rest.
10/05/07
The film undeniably has buckets of style, aided and abetted by some extremely funky animated subtitles.
10/05/07
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Visually inventive and bleakly witty, this is a must for fans of off-kilter fantasy thrillers.
10/05/07
It relates to Night Watch the way X2 relates to X-Men: you need to have seen the earlier film to have a hope of following the plot, but it’s a bigger, deeper, more exhilarating ride.
10/05/07
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Madly over-plotted, with overlapping time frames and puzzling sub-plots, it makes no concessions to neophytes.
06/23/07
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Watch's supernatural police and Bekmambetov's rich visual palette give the film enough strength at least to throw a couple elbows to set itself apart from other nameless films with plenty of effects, but little vision.
07/07/08
... a mindless muddle - loud, slowly paced, and overdone; in other words, it is exactly like a bad Hollywood blockbuster, except for the subtitles.
07/04/08
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06/17/08
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While it's not as good as the first film, Day Watch is a nice alternative to the American horror flicks that have been polluting the cinemas this year.
03/12/08
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10/19/07
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