The film undeniably has buckets of style, aided and abetted by some extremely funky animated subtitles.
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10/05/07
Day Watch (2007)
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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
Reviews for Day Watch
Top CriticBig, stupid and nonsensical
10/05/07
Top CriticDay Watch combines the action sequences of a John Woo blockbuster with wonderfully self-conscious humour and hardcore human interest.
10/05/07
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
Top CriticPart zombie, part vampire and all a pain in the neck.
10/05/07
Visually inventive and bleakly witty, this is a must for fans of off-kilter fantasy thrillers.
10/05/07
Madly over-plotted, with overlapping time frames and puzzling sub-plots, it makes no concessions to neophytes.
06/23/07
Top CriticA slog through endless death metal-powered action sequences.
10/05/07
Top CriticA 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
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
Top CriticEven during its action sequences it is slow, confusing and apparently interminable.
10/05/07
Impressively directed with superb special effects, this is an action-packed fantasy flick that's actually more fun than the first film.
10/06/07
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.
06/11/07
This sequel to the convoluted Night Watch offers more of the same.
06/07/07
With what seems to be a freer hand and a bigger budget, Bekmambetov returns with an even slicker, faster-paced and funnier take on the black magical sub-castes born in the novels of Sergei Lukyanenko and Vladimir Vasiliev.
05/31/07
This sequel reprises the original’s conceit that if you just throw a lot of cool fantasy ballyhoo together, who cares if coherence becomes collateral damage? [This] is what you’d imagine it’s like being stuck inside the head of a geeky 12-year-old boy.
06/02/07
In comparison [to Night Watch], Day Watch is straightforward, explaining what's gone before while telling a fantastical story and having fun doing it.
06/08/07
Day Watch falls prey to the curse of most sequels in which 'more' is often a thin concept stretched beyond its limits and misconstrued to mean 'bigger and better.'
06/15/07
... 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
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.
10/04/07
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