Day Watch (Unrated)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Galina Tyunina, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Vladimir Menshov Director: Timur Bekmambetov Brand: FOX Writer: Timur Bekmambetov Producer: Adam F. Goldberg Producer: Aleksei Kublitsky Producer: Alexey Borisov Writer: Aleksandr Talal Writer: Sergey Lukyanenko Writer: Vladimir Vasiliev DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language); English (Dubbed) Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 132 minutes Published: 2007-10-01 DVD Release Date: 2007-10-30 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: 20th Century Fox Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Day Watch (Unrated)
Movie Review: All noise - No story
Summary: 1 Stars
The novel "Night Watch" is split into 3 stories. The first movie, "Night Watch" is an adaptation of the first story (with a snippet of the prolog from the 2nd book). The second movie, "Day Watch" is a mish-mash of the 2nd and 3rd stories in the first book.
There are two essential plotlines in Day Watch and neither is given enough attention to really flesh things out. The first story involves someone killing dark others without permission. This threatens the balance between Night Watch and Day Watch, particularly when Anton is framed for the crimes.
The second story involves the Chalk of Fate and the struggle over its use.
Both of these stories are fleshed out and interesting in the novel but are completely incomprehensible in the film. Had they simply focused on one or the other (and ignored the story about Yegor and his birthday and all that) this could have been a fine successor to the first film.
As it is, it's a noisy mess filled with action sequences that don't make any sense, characters that lack motivation and development, and a non-sensical almost Star Trek like happy ending where everything is reversed.
I haven't been this disappointed in a movie sequel since "Faraway, So Close" and that includes "The Matrix: Reloaded".
I thought Night Watch was great, this is a poor follow-up. Read the books instead.