A good movie

Some time ago, I watched the first installment and since I enjoyed it, I was definitely eager to check this sequel. The first positive thing with this second installment is that it was in Russian, and not dubbed like the previous entry (I have absolutely no idea why they decided to broadcast this movie in English…). Furthermore, I was this time familiar with this world and the characters involved so it was not as confusing as before. Still, I can’t say it was really much better than ‘Night Watch’. I mean, it was again visually really impressive and there is definitely something really appealing about this Russian underworld but I was still missing something about the story. Especially the characters could have been more developed. It is actually pretty funny that the whole thing was back then advertised as ‘The new Fantasy trilogy not to be missed’ when, in fact, Timur Bekmambetov never got to make the third installment and probably never will. On one hand, it is rather surprising since those two movies were among the biggest successes at the Russian box-office. On the other hand, because they were so successful, Bekmambetov got the attention of Hollywood, went on directing ‘Wanted’ and seemingly dropped the whole project alltogether. I would be rather curious to see where the story would go from there but, on the other hand, there was a nice closure at the end of this second installment so there is maybe no real need to go further on. Anyway, even though I don’t think it is really amazing whatsoever, it remains a pretty good flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10