This is rather odd film, Night watch starts off strong with dark and stark visuals and an ancient prophecy translating into modern urban fantasy. However around the halfway point the plot sort of falls apart and dithers in strange paces: many important events and characters arrive unannounced and insufficiently explained or revealed, and what seems to be the ending sort of anticlimaxes and a subplot becomes the true ending. The last 3 minutes or so is very good and somewhat redeems the movie however.
Worth seeing to an extent just for being very different than a modern western fantasy or horror/vampire movie, it has a unique gritty and mundane approach to its fantastic elements, a lot of this has to do with being russian produced and as such features the natural Gothic decay look of post-Soviet Russia. The cinematography is also beautiful and the effects good, but the cuts are often frenetically paced. Ultimately however the plot stumbles in ways that detract significantly from the watchability of the movie.
Night watch film review.
This is rather odd film, Night watch starts off strong with dark and stark visuals and an ancient prophecy translating into modern urban fantasy. However around the halfway point the plot sort of falls apart and dithers in strange paces: many important events and characters arrive unannounced and insufficiently explained or revealed, and what seems to be the ending sort of anticlimaxes and a subplot becomes the true ending. The last 3 minutes or so is very good and somewhat redeems the movie however.
Worth seeing to an extent just for being very different than a modern western fantasy or horror/vampire movie, it has a unique gritty and mundane approach to its fantastic elements, a lot of this has to do with being russian produced and as such features the natural Gothic decay look of post-Soviet Russia. The cinematography is also beautiful and the effects good, but the cuts are often frenetically paced. Ultimately however the plot stumbles in ways that detract significantly from the watchability of the movie.