Night Watch R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 20, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Searchlight
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vladimir Menshov & Konstantin Khabensky | |
Performer: | Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina, Galina Tunina & Victor Verzhbitsky | |
Directed by | Timur Bekmambetov | |
Screenwriting by | Sergei Lukyanenko, Timur Bekmambetov & Laeta Kalogridis | |
Composition by | Yuri Poteyenko | |
Produced by | Konstantin Ernst & Anatoly Maximov | |
Director of Photography: | Sergei Trofimov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
A highly promising curtain-raiser to an ambitious trilogy.
Full Review
BBC.com
By far the most enjoyable aspect of the film, apart from its sheer imaginative scope, is the way it grounds its parallel fantasy universe in the everyday life of post-CommunistRussia.
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Screen International
3 stars out of 4 -- Bekmambetov delivers a manic shocker that grows more compelling as it increases in ridiculousness...
Premiere
4 stars out of 5 -- Whip-fast, bonkers and sometimes completely incomprehensible....[A] stylish riff on vampire mythology...
Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] cryptic but giddyingly inventive Russian fantasy...
Ultimate DVD
An exciting, fun, and hauntingly beautiful piece of fantasy filmmaking...
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: C --
This mostly incoherent, enormously eccentric helping of mayhem breaks into so many fragments that watching the movie can be a bit like trying to assemble the pieces from several jigsaw puzzles.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Product Description:
The first part of a trilogy, NIGHT WATCH is an old-fashioned good vs. evil parable that relies on some thoroughly modern special effects to ensnare its audience. Set in present-day Moscow, the movie begins with a quick skip back through the centuries to inform us how a delicate truce was struck between the forces of Light and Dark. These forces still exist in Moscow, with both sides keeping a close eye on each other as they attempt to disguise themselves from the earth's mere mortals. NIGHT WATCH's central character is Anton Gorodetsky (Konstantin Khabensky), who is defined as an "Other" by the legions of Light and Dark. Anton and his cohorts live as vampires, and await the arrival of a virgin who will announce the resumption of hostilities between the forces of Light and Dark; as the film progresses, it becomes apparent that an epic battle is just around the corner.
One of the biggest films of all time in its native Russia, director Timur Bekmambetov's NIGHT WATCH positions itself somewhere in between THE MATRIX and BLADE in the pantheon of CGI-fueled sci-fi flicks. Although the plot is mind-boggling and occasionally verges on the incomprehensible, Bekmambetov is presumably using this first part of the trilogy to lure viewers into his wild cinematic world. Impressively, Bekmambetov's film was shot on a tiny budget, but it belies its meager origins. Even the English subtitles are integrated into several scenes, with words zipping across the screen and melting into the action as a heavy-metal soundtrack thumps away. Knowing he is set to film two sequels, Bekmambetov leaves his audience hanging as NIGHT WATCH nears its climax, with his second installment (DAY WATCH) promising further FX-laden feuding, and, in an intriguing twist, an English-language climax to the trilogy with DUSK WATCH.
One of the biggest films of all time in its native Russia, director Timur Bekmambetov's NIGHT WATCH positions itself somewhere in between THE MATRIX and BLADE in the pantheon of CGI-fueled sci-fi flicks. Although the plot is mind-boggling and occasionally verges on the incomprehensible, Bekmambetov is presumably using this first part of the trilogy to lure viewers into his wild cinematic world. Impressively, Bekmambetov's film was shot on a tiny budget, but it belies its meager origins. Even the English subtitles are integrated into several scenes, with words zipping across the screen and melting into the action as a heavy-metal soundtrack thumps away. Knowing he is set to film two sequels, Bekmambetov leaves his audience hanging as NIGHT WATCH nears its climax, with his second installment (DAY WATCH) promising further FX-laden feuding, and, in an intriguing twist, an English-language climax to the trilogy with DUSK WATCH.
Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day, the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, try to control them and limit their outrage.
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