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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:58
Rotten:35
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.
Theatrical Release:05-10-2007
Synopsis: This sequel to the Russian film NIGHT WATCH centers on an epic battle between forces of good and evil. An uneasy truce has kept the armies at bay for centuries, but that peace is about to end, and... [More]
Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
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.
Day Watch combines the action sequences of a John Woo blockbuster with wonderfully self-conscious humour and hardcore human interest.
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.
Top CriticImpressively directed with superb special effects, this is an action-packed fantasy flick that's actually more fun than the first film.
The film undeniably has buckets of style, aided and abetted by some extremely funky animated subtitles.
Top CriticA 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.
Top CriticVisually inventive and bleakly witty, this is a must for fans of off-kilter fantasy thrillers.
Part zombie, part vampire and all a pain in the neck.
Even during its action sequences it is slow, confusing and apparently interminable.
Madly over-plotted, with overlapping time frames and puzzling sub-plots, it makes no concessions to neophytes.
Top CriticA slog through endless death metal-powered action sequences.
Top CriticBig, stupid and nonsensical
Top CriticChockablock with neat ideas - so many, in fact, that they ultimately end up crowding each other out ... goofy, monumental fun, until it sort of isn't.
The first film ... had style and a specifically Russian streak of dark angst. Day Watch continues in that tradition but adds one unexpected element -- a weird sense of humor.
Day Watch may not suit everyone, but it opens a big can of Russian whoop-de-whoop on anyone willing to take it.
However innovative and arresting the filmmaking, interest in this chapter begins to wane at the 105-minute mark.
all at once a complex morality tale, a dark mirror of post-Soviet Russia, and a masterpiece of dynamic surrealism, displaying some of the most imaginative visual effects yet seen in a feature-length movie.
The filmmakers destroy Moscow with the same glee that Godzilla has in stomping Tokyo. Even though Day Watch is probably a good 20 minutes too long, it's easy to forgive its excesses because Bekmambetov just seems to be having so much fun.
Every bit as puzzling as its predecessor, but it's shot in such a bold, crazy way that you have to admire its pure audacity.
At 2 hours and 20 minutes, this zippy follow-up to Night Watch delivers a killer pace, blasts of heavy-metal, vexed characters, and gory allegory wherein occult terrorists suck blood, cast spells and escape to a spooky zone known as the Gloom.
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