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A good movie

Posted : 11 years, 11 months ago on 6 April 2012 07:30

Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I was really eager to check it out. First of all, even though it was pretty neat that this movie was broadcast on one of our Dutch channels, for some reasons, they went for an English dubbed version and it really sucked (a few years later, they would also show the sequel, ‘Day Watch’, and this time around, it would be in Russian….). Anyway, to be honest, it was one of the most messy and chaotic movies I have seen for a long time. As a result, the whole thing was sometimes rather confusing and I'm not sure if I understood the whole story but I guess it was also the charm of this feature. Still,  it was a visually fascinating flick with some impressive special effects. Furthermore, I enjoyed also that the movie was taking place in Moscow without any Hollywood stars which was just quite refreshing. As said before, in my opinion, the plot was a mess but they did develop some interesting mythology. Still, there was such a focus on the visuals that the plot didn't get much attention and the characters could have been also more develop. Anyway, in spite of its flaws, it was an original, intriguing and entertaining fantastic flick and it is definitely worth a look.



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Night Watch review

Posted : 12 years ago on 13 March 2012 02:04

Quite possibly one of the most darkest, surreal and disturbing movie of modern times, Nightwatch also happens to be the greatest Russian movie I've seen so far. Come to think of it, it's the only Russian film I've seen so far but something tells me I will be checking out more Russian flicks soon. As seeing how brilliant the movie was, I kinda regret it because it's based on a book, although loosely and it was only after finishing the movie twice I got to know this and frankly speaking, I don't like watching movies before reading the books as it always obscures my views. Now I will read the book exactly how I saw the movie but I think I'll manage. Anyway, this is a positively brilliant film and deserves to be called a masterpiece but too bad this is the only film I like (so far) by Timur Bekmambetov and its a shame really as seeing how promising he looked back then.

Onto the movie: the best part is the cinematography. It's one of the best and it also has the dreaded-layer atmosphere (just a term I coined up), a.k.a the heavy layer, meaning that you feel "heavy" while watching a movie and you expect anything, in the scary sense, to happen at anytime possible. It's also not visually colourful nor visually dull. Its somewhere in-between but manages to be both at given scenes. Also, I haven't said anything about the acting performances, so here goes: Konstantin Khabenskiy as Anton Gorodetsky and Galina Tyunina as Olga and, to some extend, Dmitriy Martynov as Yegor.

All in all, Nightwatch is a superb film, not too fast paced and excellently told!

8.5/10


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Interesting

Posted : 17 years, 12 months ago on 3 April 2006 11:40

Not as action-packed as I expected it to be, but it was very interesting. The main theme of the movie is captured perfectly by the character Gesser: "It is easier to kill the Light within oneself, than to scatter the Darkness that surrounds us." The sub-title effects were pretty awesome. Some parts of it could have been executed better to provide a sense of urgency that was missing. This movie had a really good story. Other than the whole "light vs. dark" concept, it also had a very original story. I look forward to seeing the next one.


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