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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
