Day Watch (Unrated) [Blu-ray]

Day Watch (Unrated) [Blu-ray]
by Timur Bekmambetov

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Actor: Galina Tyunina, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Brand: KHABENSKY,KONSTANTI
Writer: Timur Bekmambetov
Producer: Adam F. Goldberg
Producer: Aleksei Kublitsky
Producer: Alexey Borisov
Writer: Alexander Talal
Writer: Sergei Lukyanenko
Writer: Vladimir Vasiliev
Audio: Russian (Original Language), DTS-HD High Res Audio; English (Original Language), DTS 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Cantonese (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Cantonese (Dubbed); English (Dubbed), DTS 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Korean (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Day Watch (Unrated) [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Killed by Plot Holes
Summary: 2 Stars

When I saw Day Watch available on Netflix streaming I eagerly hit the play button on the Xbox 360 and sat down for what I hoped would be a couple hours of fantasy action movie enjoyment. What I found, unfortunately, was a movie that seemed to lose its way about a third of the way in and never did make enough sense to justify recommending it.

Something that Netflix failed to mention was that this is a sequel so it took me a while to catch up on the mythos of the fantasy world being portrayed. Even so, fans of fantasy will quickly catch up with and grasp the basics of the world of Day Watch. What I was never able to figure out were the amazing gaps in the story.

Why did Anton switch bodies if it would be so obvious to the Day Watch that he had done so? Where does Svetlana go for chunks of the movie? Why was Anton able to figure out the mystery of the chalk so easily - something that had been hidden for centuries? How could Svetlana's accidental bump of Yegor count as conflict, let alone cause him to bleed?

The story's gaps killed this movie for me. There are better foreign action films, like District B13. Go watch that instead if you are interested in good sci-fi fantasy action.

DVD Review: Russian Magic Fiction
Summary: 2 Stars

I bought this movie because he had just bought an HD LCD TV (and got a free bluray player from Amazon). I was looking for some sci-fi/zombie/killer robot movies and stumbled across this.

It is, apparently, a translation of a russian novel (actually, it's a series, but you know what I'm saying). The backstory and plotlines are WONDERFUL! I can see that this setting has a fantastic potential.

Unfortunately, I don't think it was pulled off. I don't mind dubbing. I'd rather have dubbed than subtitled. The special effects were rather cheesey and a number of the characters were strictly two-dimensional (and some even almost one dimensional). I inferred a lot of the plot and had to explain it to the spouse as things progressed.

I want to like this movie. I REALLY want to like it, but I just can't.

I gave it two stars because of the potential of the setting. I'll probably trade this one off or put it up on eBay.

DVD Review: No animated subtitles!
Summary: 2 Stars

Please note that I am rating the disk alone and not the film which I give 4 stars. Why Fox decided to release this great Russian epic without the original animated subtitles is beyond me! It really does take a lot out of the movie and unless Fox realizes that both Night Watch and Day Watch suffer for this and re-releases them with the original subtitles, I will refuse to buy!

DVD Review: Artistic and Creative
Summary: 5 Stars

The director, Timur Bekmambetov, deserves a great amount of credit for bringing such a difficult series of books to life on the big screen. The books are not difficult to understand but without reading them they would be very hard to portray. Anyone who enjoys creative and artistic movies will like this one. The cinematography is fantastic.

DVD Review: Dark Days...
Summary: 5 Stars

Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) is back, trying to fulfill his duties on the nightwatch, while suffering through his son's chosen allegiance to the dark. Filled w/ incredible action sequences and the same crazy, light-speed pacing, DAYWATCH is another russian masterpiece of apocalyptic madness! My favorite scenes include the "hotel hallway sportscar drive", "body switch", and "utterly frantic party climax". My one wish / hope is that hollywood does NOT attempt to remake this (or Nightwatch) into its latest billion dollar mega-turd...

Description of Day Watch (Unrated) [Blu-ray]

Like The Matrix, Day Watch combines cutting-edge digital effects and mind-blowing action to create a stunningly original world. This Unrated Edition takes you on an even wilder ride with more intense thrills and incredible effects.

Only one thing stands between peace and Armageddon: the supernatural agents of Day Watch, who fight to control the armies of light and darkness. When the son of a senior Day Watch officer turns to the darkness, forces beyond the imagination are unleashed and the fate of the world hangs in the balance!

The dizzying supernatural Russian epic started in Night Watch continues with Day Watch, in which once again the battle between the forces of Light (the Night Watch) and Dark (the Day Watch) threatens to crack open the world as we know it. The plot centers around Anton (Russian superstar Konstantin Khabensky), an Other (one of many beings with varied supernatural powers) whose son, Yegor, has joined the Day Watch, who are grooming him to be their superpowerful savior. Anton's protoge, Svetlana, also has high-capacity power, and if Yegor and Svetlana come into conflict, the resulting devastation could shatter everything. The key to success seems to lie with the Chalk of Fate, a simple piece of chalk that can rewrite reality. Day Watch is full of plotholes and underdeveloped story points (at one point, to keep him safe, Anton's consciousness is switched into the body of his Night Watch colleague Olga--but mere moments later the Day Watch knows what's happened, before any suspense could be mined from it; as a result, this promising plot twist seems only to exist to allow for some girl-on-girl action), but it's forgivable. As with the first film, Day Watch bubbles over with its wildly imaginative world, its ravishing style, and its fantastic visual effects. If a Hollywood blockbuster had half as much creativity, it would be praised to the skies and be the hit of the year. Don't let the subtitles put you off (particularly since even the subtitles reflect the movie's wit and imagination)--Day Watch is a cinematic feast that any movie fan should devour. --Bret Fetzer

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