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In modern day Moscow, supernatural armies of Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, gear up to do battle. Set on the gritty streets and subways, and harkening back to bloody medieval days, blood-suckers, ...( read more 
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MCT:August 1, 2008
I couldn't understand this movie. It's a mix of Matrix and some bad horror. Story of light and dark fighting is boring especially in this matrix version...
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MCT:July 30, 2008The visionary clearly wasn't enough here to entertain me. People who haven't read the book didn't understand one bit of what's going on. And people who did - were simply bored.
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MCT:July 28, 2008
One of the biggest successes of Russian literature (and now cinema) and one of the few exports that made it to other countries in recent years has quite an interesting take on the eternal battle of good and evil. The look of this fantasy / horror movie is defined by a wild, sometimes odd mix of modern Matrix-esque special effects and every day life of Moscow, which can be positively described as unique, but also causes quite a bunch of WTF moments. Without having read the novel it's still very apparent that the script had to rush a lot into this first movie of three. Apart from those few rather weird, inappropriate and confusing scenes there isn't all that much to complain about this. It's entertaining and adds some new spices into an old genre. It's just not all that impressive either.
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MCT:July 24, 2008
My first Russian film! This one seemed to come well recommended. A very modern day vampire style film, capturing a very different angle to others. I did lose the storyline a bit toward the end, but have to say the effects were terrific, not constant throughout the film, but impressive when they appear.
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MCT:July 23, 2008
The effects were really awesome, and the story I guess was okay. I have a feeling that ill like this better a second time around though because it was just so different to take in for the first time.
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MCT:July 20, 2008
Overall I liked this flick. It's kind of Blade, Underworld, Matrix and Highlander all thrown into a Russian Blender. I was told the books are good, have to check them out. Also, I saw the dubbed version. I will watch the Russian version and may update the review. I watched the Russian version and it is better. Don't even bother watching the dubbed version.
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MCT:July 18, 2008This is not your ordinary movie! Based on the Russian novel; or rather set of novels, this is a great movie,... but MUST be watched with it's sequel, Day Watch. A third movie is scheduled; called, Twilight Watch.
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MCT:July 16, 2008
It's often a bit too hard to follow for it's own good, but at least it looks nice and has a good plot.
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MCT:July 6, 2008Fun and very visual film from Russia. The story is okay, with perhaps too much emphasis put on mysterious elements rather than building characters, but knowing that this is the first chapter in a proposed trilogy that's okay. Plus the payoff is pretty good too. Makes me anxious to see Daywatch and the director's Wanted.
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MCT:June 30, 2008
Nice style, but not much content. Serves up as an intro to plenty of characters but doesn't really flesh out any of them.
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MCT:June 29, 2008
Pretty goddamned disappointing. Nightwatch has a great premise, generally fantastic imagery and not a hell of a lot else to back it up. The character development was generally uneven as was the story. Things would happen and I'd wonder where the hell it all came from. This movie had is moments, definitely but it just made me want to watch Constantine instead.
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MCT:June 18, 2008
superb visual effects. very cool, although i didn't really get some parts. i felt that it was bordering a little on style over substance, the visuals distracted the viewer from the story and message.
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MCT:June 16, 2008it was good. it explains alot. the effects were pretty good. the plot was good. the acting was great. the director has a sweet artistic way of film. he has a certain look to his movies that is really cool. this movie was beautiful.
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MCT:June 15, 2008
I cried at the very end on this one. I undervalued this movie at the beginning. But it has a really good message and a really good drama for a vampire story.
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MCT:June 14, 2008
This movie is just awesome... Leave it to the Russians to make such a twisted and complicated story! A must see!
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MCT:June 9, 2008
This was a bit hard to follow. I think it is probably better in Russian with subtitles than with the dubbing. The next in the series is quite good.
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MCT:June 8, 2008
It just doesn't make sense. There are extremely well-made movies like Sin City or Sweeney Todd that make no sense, but that is of so little importance when virtually everything else in those films is stellar. This film makes so ridiculously little sense at all that not even the great special effects can redeem it.
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MCT:June 6, 2008
i realy dont know how to rate this movie !
the point is the story is so believable !
i realy like it but i dont know why ... it could be another minimal dracula or good/evil movie but its not .
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MCT:May 29, 2008
a mess. more style than substance. perhaps some things were lost in translation, but i can be certain the plot was incoherent also.
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MCT:May 29, 2008
Very interesting story and artistic concepts. This IS an "art" film believe it or not. The way they worked the captions is amazing and something I've never seen used before. I'm not sure if the entire story really grabs me. It can be sometimes confusing. But the movie is worth the watch.
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MCT:May 29, 2008
A very dark affair. Took some time to settle into the script and the end seemed a bit rushed. Visually amazing though.
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MCT:May 28, 2008
The only movie adapted from a book that I've read that didn't completely piss me off. As a matter of fact, you can watch the movie and read the book as many times as you want and they'll both entertain you because they almost follow an entirely different storyline. The ultimate good vs. evil movie with awesome effects and just all around an amazing movie.
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MCT:May 26, 2008Horrible, Horrible movie.
Okay...now that I've pretty much left half of you stunned that your impenetrable "Night Watch" could actually suck on a level so bad that I actually jokingly say "well, it could be worse, atleast we aren't watching Night Watch again!" when watching a really bad movie.
So now you're thinking, wow really? Someone hated it that much, truth is, I went into this movie trying to give it a chance. Believe me, I wanted to like this film but in all honesty what started out as an intriguing idea really turned into a convoluted mess, with horrible acting, disjointed plot which isn't necessarily a bad thing because alot of movies use those tactics to tell their stories so that the viewer can piece together what's happening. However, atleast for me anyways, I just found Night Watch just so utterly uninteresting that it didn't help that things were explained in layers. Sometimes it works, but in the case it just makes the movie suffer when they threw us into something with little explination and little of any interest going on around us.
Plus the acting was atrocious in some points. In a movie if a comedic element is meant to be there it should be somewhat apparent. I'm not sure if the director was intentionally making his actors act over the top at clearly inappropriate times but what comes off the screen is more on the wrong side of laughable than what the material seems to denote. Not all the acting was bad though, it was either as mentioned, unintentionally funny or the actors just weren't engaging enough for me to care about, which in truth to begin the movie I actually found myself interested in the story even if it was a jumbled mess.
So if you don't know the basic story is about the battle of light an dark, keeping the balance or some stupid shit like that because in all honesty half the movie goes on a tangent about other shit that either never comes to fruition or seemingly doesn't matter anyways, I'm talking about the vampire bitch who wants revenge. What was the point of that when they seem to want to focus on the other woman who would bring about the next battle between light and dark anyways. So our protagonist becomes or already was a seer and he was to choose if he were to become Day Watch (The Soccer Hooligans) or Night Watch (Garbage Men). I mean I know this is a silly nit pick but were the Night Watch supposed to look like Garbage Men? I mean, I can't decide which I'd rather be, a Soccer Hooligan with a puffy hat or a Garbage Man....all I know is that in the twisted world if the 'Watch' the choice is yours.
I'm sure some of it is made clear in the sequel, but after watching this movie I'm not sure if I could sit through another movie that thinks so highly of itself. This movie is so complex that it needs to be watched more than once to understand it's 'complexities' right? Well when I couldn't give a fuck about the characters or plot it makes it quite the hard task to even entertain the thought of doing so.
I mean it's not as if I've never seen a complex movie in my life or the storyline just went 'above my head'. I got it, really I did...the point was most movies that attempt the same atleast try to bring their movies together in interesting and entertaining ways. Night Watch however borrows elements from other sources while adding their own in such uninteresting manner that I really had to wonder what all the hyberbole surrounding this movie was about. Seriously Flixster, you let me down in this regard, haha. Or should I replace that with Dr. Blood? after all the overblown hype he made about this film was what interested me in the series to begin with.
The only saving grace of this movie was the few visuals they used...and even then they weren't exactly unique but atleast they were well done. By the way, what's with the video game thing? Are they secretly telling us that deep down they want to be like 'Stay Alive'. I mean hey, whatever man, that's your own thing heh.
Oh yeah, one last thing before I wrap up this review of hate. What's with the cover and back comparisons to Lord Of The Rings? There is nothing epic on any scale in this movie to deserve such high praise. Not on any level, I mean ya know....those are actually well made, consistently told yet well paced/acted and for the most part not quite as convoluted, epic that actually delivers what it advertises. I mean people on here were saying that this was a great 'horror' movie. Really? Did you see the horror? I mean sure we had a Vampire lady...but really this movie just didn't give you fully what was so highly toted. Perhaps the sequel eh?
So to wrap up, never compare this to a good series like Lord Of The Rings. Beware that this isn't the worst movie in existence and it does have few redeeming qualities, but it's certainly no masterpiece.
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xxBeccaMariexxposted 79 days ago -
For some reason Graham Phillips as Yegor is in the feature film, Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) (2004) but not in cast list any where i could find!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<embed align="middle" bgcolor="000000" flashvars="flvbaseclip=2674006&" height="365" name="efp" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="http://www.ifilm.com/efp" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="448"/><h1>Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) - Trailer</h1><span>Posted Jun 20, 2005</span>All That Stands Between Light And Darkness Is the Night Watch.
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You can get the books in english at probably any bookstore. They have them at Chapters and Indigo...if you have those stores in your vicinity.
I suggest reading the books, they changed shit around in the flick...but it wasn't bad. I'd have not, but hey...I'm not the director or screen writer...now am I? XDposted 379 days ago -
If you want to read the series, which is vastly different from the movies.. yet awesome in their own right.. you can usually check out nightwatch from your local library.. but the other two you'll have to buy at barnes and noble. they also sell them online at amazon where you can find them at discounted prices.
personally i liked the american versions better than the russian. i didn't like the way they were cut in the russian versions.. but i absolutely love this series. the books are really great and contain a lot more detail about the gloom and magic that the movies don't really cover.posted 402 days ago -
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Only watch the ORIGINAL RUSSIAN version with subtitles, as it's FAR superior to the UK/USA dubbed one!
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