Nightwatch

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  May 17, 2008

  creepfreak

  There are some truly creepy moments in Nightwatch. This was a well made, nail biting thriller.
  
  Plot -
  "Martin Bells is a last year law student who takes a job as the night watchman in a medical examiner's building. Although most of the time he can catch up with his studying,...( read more) every hour he has to make the rounds through the complex, including entering the morgue. There, recent murder victims are occasionally brought in by Inspector Cray, a gruff detective who's investigating a serial murder spree along with his partner, Bill Davis.
  
  Martin's girlfriend, Katherine, isn't crazy about his new job, while his pal and fellow law student, James Coleman, doesn't think that the job or either of their lives is that exciting anymore. Believing that they should live life on the edge, James gets Martin to agree to a "game" of challenges where either of the two will test the other's nerves and bravado. One of them involves soliciting a prostitute, Joyce, for various sexual and nonsexual activities. Soon, however, some strange events begin occurring in the morgue and Martin wonders if his friend is behind them, especially when the events make Martin look like the prime suspect for the serial murder spree. As things get progressively worse, Martin doesn't know whom to trust or whether the recent occurrences are just part of a game or are indeed real and potentially quite dangerous."
  
  
  The acting in this is good, but it's quite awkward. The dialogue is also a little strange, but all of this does not point to a bad movie. As a matter of fact it's what makes the movie so unique and stand out in a very good way. The scenes in the beginning when Martin is working at the medical building alone at night are extremely chilling and very eerie. This is the kind of "guess who done it" thriller that will have you guessing till the very end.
  
  Some bloody moments as well, and the killer plays a good ass psychopath. Great movie, I highly recommend it!
  
  

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  December 4, 2007

  sanjurosamurai

  this movie wasnt memorable but it was interesting and had a strong cast.

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  August 13, 2007

  76Majikat

  After a little bit of a slow start comes a film that is dark and slightly eerie. A really enjoyable watch.
  
  I'm not really a fan of stars taking on new accents unless it's done really well, I think you could still hear the Scottish in Ewan's voice, apart from that, I enjoyed h...( read more)is performance.

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  May 29, 2007

  sykora259517

  Cool movie not the one I was actually looking for (which was a russian vampire movie)

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  May 25, 2007

  organgrinder136

  a who-dunnit with a very creepy vibe to it. i like creepy movies. hmm, so steven soderbergh had a hand in this.....

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  September 3, 2009

  goldbergjk49

  Good movie but kindy wacky specilaty supposed 17 hooker she like 30 old.

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  August 3, 2009

  MisterTuttle

  An Extremely unnerving thriller. It's not exactly scary or shocking, but more eerie. The last 20 minutes are very intense. This isn't a film to be seen only once because you might think it won't make any sense and that the killer is obviously suppose to be a certain someone, but ...( read more)I think the film is more told in the killer's shoes because he doesn't expect to get caught. There is a moment where he realizes he is going to be and decides to pretty much go all out. Very creepy.

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  June 26, 2009

  HorrorMovieCinema

  "He's the prime suspect in a terrifying mystery. The police are after him and so is the murderer."
  
  
  
  Nightwatch, which was apparently an English-language remake of the Dutch film Nattevagen, both from director Ole Bornedal, was a dark horror murder mystery. It has a g...( read more)reat cast in Ewan McGregor, who has a good American accent, Patricia Arquette, John C. Reilly, and Nick Nolte. It's sad that they weren't asked to do anything impressive. There was a very existential tint to it, but it was too little, too late to add any depth. It did make me think, though. Still, it was nicely shot, and the gross parts are enough to make you shiver without making you sick, and they were done quite effectively. Nothing was unnecessary.
  
  
  
  Martin Bells: How do you know it's just the one guy?
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Can I trust you?
  Martin Bells: Well yeah, absolutely.
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Can I trust you with a bit of privileged information?
  Martin Bells: Oh yeah.
  Inspector Thomas Cray: He has his signature.
  Martin Bells: Signature?
  Inspector Thomas Cray: He takes their eyes.
  
  

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  June 15, 2009

  R0L0D3X

  Plot
  A young law student takes a part time job as a lone hospital watchman just as a serial killer has begun to terrorize the city. Even more frightening are all the clues, which keep leading back to him. The police are closing in, and this innocent man has become a prime...( read more) suspect. To solve the crime, he''ll have to stay awake--wide awake.

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  June 14, 2009

  xXxXHorrorFanxXxX

  Nick Nolte for all intents and purposes looking like Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster but without the use of makeup is police inspector Thomas Cray who's in charge of a special police task force trying to find and capture, dead or alive, a serial killer. The killer for s...( read more)ome weird reason has a habit of cutting out the eyes of his dead victims, all women, and then raping their corpses. It seems that the killer wants to quit the business of serial killing but at the same time wants the police and the law to leave him alone and stop hunting him down so he can enjoy his retirement.
  
  This sets up the story for young law student Martin Bell, Ewan McGeror, who just got a job at the local medical examiner building as a night watchman where all the recent murder victims of the killers are kept. The killer plans to frame young Martin as can then be free from being tracked down and arrested for the crimes that Martin will be jailed for.
  
  "Nightwatch" has it's share of cheap thrills and a number of twists and turns in it's story but their very unconvincing in how the killer, who you can spot almost as soon as you see him, is so hard for the police to find when his actions are so insane and weird just like those of the murderer.
  
  The film-makers put two people into roles that would make you think that their the real killer of the people in the movie. One is so obvious that you just know that he didn't do it and is just a red herring put into the movie to get you and the police off the track of the real killer.
  
  There's also a fact that he, the killer, once worked in the medical examiner's office some time ago and was dismissed for messing around with the corpses. All that is in the medical examiners record department which should have been a dead give away to everyone involved just too who he really is.
  
  There's also some scenes in the movie that focus on a photo of Lewis Paine, thats pinned to the wall in the night watchman's office one of the people executed for the murder of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. This seems to indicate to the audience that he, or his ghost, may have something to do with the killings but in the end nothing ever comes of it and he's completely forgotten
  
  There's also a very mixed-up sub-plot in the movie between Martin's friend James, Josh Brolin, and a girl he picked up at the local bus station Joyce, Alix Koromzay,who he's trying to get Martin to have an affair with her. This moronic attempt by James is to give him a high since it seems that the normal high he used to get with women by having sex is no longer there and even having the hell beat out of him to get high doesn't work either.
  
  Joyce's relations with Martin, which are almost next to nothing, has his girlfriend Kathy, Pat Arquette, leave him and in the end. Sure enough Joyce ends up being a victim of the on the loose serial killer and Martin, becomes the prime suspect just like the killer wanted in the crime.
  
  The ending of "Nightwatch" had the usual damsel as well as good guy both in distress with the crazed killer having them both tied down on a table in the mortuary and about to cut both their skulls open with an electric slicer. It's then when the person who was made to look like the killer during the entire movie coming to their rescue, minus a thumb, blasting the real killer away and sending him to his just reward.
  
  "Nightwatch" is a watchable horror/suspense movie but it's hard to take seriously at all due it it's very predictable and unconvincing story and the killer is so obvious that you can easily spot him well before the movie reveals his true identity.
  
  
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Have you ever been killed before? I'll be back in a minute.
  
  Martin Bells: Don't you see it, that's all I've gotta do. Just sit on my ass. Sit. On. My. Ass.
  
  Martin Bells: You're a fucking nutcase!
  James Gallman: That's Mr. Fucking Nutcase to you!
  
  Katherine: You had strange dreams last night.
  Martin Bells: I did?
  Katherine: Mmm. You were breathing really heavily. Kept kicking your legs and moaning.
  Martin Bells: You sure we weren't having sex?
  Katherine: Pretty sure. Yeah.
  
  Martin: You're insane!
  James: No, I'm not.
  
  Martine Bells: [Of James' thumb] : Does it hurt?
  [James smiles]
  Martin Bells: Let's grow old together.
  James: Let's get older.
  Martin Bells: Now, there's a challenge.
  
  Martin Bells: The police have a suspect.
  James Gallman: Who is it?
  Martin Bells: It's me.
  
  Katherine: Oh my god.
  Martin Bells: This just doesn't happen! This is not happening! Cray, why are you doing this? What the hell are you doing?
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Stop asking for the "how" and "why" Martin!
  
  Martin Bells: How do you know it's just the one guy?
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Can I trust you?
  Martin Bells: Well yeah, absolutely.
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Can I trust you with a bit of privileged information?
  Martin Bells: Oh yeah.
  Inspector Thomas Cray: He has his signature.
  Martin Bells: Signature?
  Inspector Thomas Cray: He takes their eyes.
  
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Most people, when they see something like this, their immediate reaction is to ask how could somebody do this and why. Even when we catch the killer, they want to know the how and why. In movies or television, the killer always explains the how or why. He always has some reason, however crazy, with a mad gleam in his eye. But I've interrogated murderers like this one before, and let me tell you, they are well beyond the need to justify what they do. They just do it. Explanations are just a fiction to make us feel safe. Because if it can't be explained, then it's just meaningless chaos. It could touch any one of us at any moment. Which is exactly what it is.
  
  Inspector Thomas Cray: Martin, if all this is what I think it is, there is someone very dangerous standing right behind you in the dark, breathing down your neck.

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