Dazzles and confuses with equal determination.
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06/01/07
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 CriticThe picture is still a Russian-centric blob of overcooked genre pie filling, aiming high but barely able to keep up with itself; yet, Day Watch is a step in the right direction
05/31/07
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
An oddly sweet-tempered mix of hyperbole, understatement and profoundly Slavic philosophizing about guilt, freedom and responsibility.
05/31/07
Chalk of Fate? I'll refrain from the nails-on-a-chalkboard references when it comes to Day Watch - not because I can resist whacky wordplay, but because the movie was so monotones to me, I couldn't muster an actual cringe.
05/31/07
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.
05/31/07
If you don't take it seriously -- i.e., if you're able to laugh at the notion of a piece of chalk that undoes time -- the sequel is a minor wackjob head trip.
05/30/07
Bekmambetov mostly keeps his story moving forward on the back of his immensely likable protagonist, played by Konstantin Khabensky.
05/29/07
The worst thing Bekmambetov has picked up from his American models is the tendency of megasequels to aggrandize material grown enervated, to compensate for thinness by spreading out.
05/29/07
A marked improvement over the original, it further proves Bekmambetov's abilities as a visionary filmmaker, though he sometimes loses sight of storytelling in favor of impressive action sequences and amusing sidetracks.
05/28/07
However innovative and arresting the filmmaking, interest in this chapter begins to wane at the 105-minute mark.
05/25/07
Aside from one stunning image of a sports car skidding along the face of a curved high-rise hotel, Night Watch fails to even equal its forebear's handful of flashy CG moments.
05/18/07
Day Watch, like Night Watch, doesn't take itself seriously, one of its chief charms.
05/18/07
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