Night Watch [Blu-ray]

Night Watch [Blu-ray]
by Timur Bekmambetov

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Actor: Galina Tyunina, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writer: Timur Bekmambetov
Producer: Aleksei Kublitsky
Producer: Aleksei Kulibin
Producer: Anatoli Maksimov
Producer: Arthur Gorson
Writer: Laeta Kalogridis
Writer: Sergei Lukyanenko
Audio: Russian (Original Language), DTS-HD High Res Audio; Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), DTS 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Night Watch [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Must Watch Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This was a very well put together Russian film. I like how they brought in Russian culture and also made the film appealing to American audiences as well. Can't wait for the 3rd and 4th films!

DVD Review: Terrific movies use subtitles
Summary: 5 Stars

I really enjoyed Night Watch and Day Watch and would suggest that you don't watch the dubbed into English version. Watch with subtitles in Russian. The subtitles are some of the best I've seen and they give the movie a graphic novel feel.

DVD Review: Beautiful, entertaining, conceptual
Summary: 4 Stars

This film is awesome. The visuals are fantastic. The storyline is mature, entertaining. Watch this, and watch the sequel- Day Watch. It was even better. Look forward to Twilight Watch coming later this year.

DVD Review: Bloody, dark
Summary: 2 Stars

Too much blood in this movie, darkness, vampires, though it is set in conteporary Moscow. A bit much to stomach.

DVD Review: A Mystical Cold War Played Out On The Streets Of Moscow...
Summary: 5 Stars

Based on the first of a trilogy of novels by Russian author, Sergei Lukyanenko, 'Nightwatch' plunges the viewer into a latter-day mystical cold war being played out on the streets of post-communist Moscow between the forces of darkness and light. Anton Gorodetsky is a reluctant, semi-alcoholic agent of "The Nightwatch" - a self-regulating body pledged to keeping the forces of darkness, "The Daywatch", in check and prosecuting those of the day-watch who threaten the truce which has kept an uneasy peace between theses diametrically opposed forces for thousands of years.

However cataclysmic forces are gathering on the streets of Moscow - forces which have haunted Anton's past, threaten to destroy the present peace, and ignite a firestorm that could well destroy all our futures.

'Nightwatch' is an urban fantasy for for people who don't like or who have grown bored of urban fantasy as a genre. Whilst taking stylistic cues from the likes of Blade (New Line Platinum Series) and the truly awful The Matrix, it is a completely original and visionary work which breathes new life into a stale and overwrought genre. Although it contains vampires, witches, curses and other ephemera of the genre, it treats them in a refreshingly grungy and highly intelligent manner. Whilst the pacing, cinematography, special effects and editing are geared towards the hyper-kinetic, director Timur Bekmambetov never allows the film's style to overwhelm the essential ordinariness or humanity of it's characters - a factor which is of critical importance in the film's denouement.

Highly recommended. Rent or buy it now. This is one roller-coaster ride that you'll be glad you took and a perfect antidote to the loathsome drek perpetuated by cinematic travesties such as the 'Underworld' films.

Description of Night Watch [Blu-ray]

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.

Night Watch is that rare film that--like The Matrix--is not only visually dazzling but creates an intriguing, seductive, and thrilling alternative world. A young man named Anton, after dabbling in black magic to bring back the wife who left him, discovers that the world is populated by fantastical Others (vampires, shape-shifters, witches, and more) who have chosen sides--Light or Dark--in an epic battle. A truce has been declared; both sides watch the other to ensure the truce is maintained. But a prophecy has predicted that a powerful Other will tilt the balance, and Anton--who is himself an Other--finds himself crucial to the prophecy's fulfillment. There's no question that Night Watch has weaknesses. Numerous plot holes get glossed over by pell-mell pacing, the visual conception of the apocalyptic battle between Light and Dark is curiously pedestrian (a bunch of knights fighting a bunch of guys in fur with swords--what happened to their various powers?), and more--but, much like similar problems with The Matrix, it doesn't matter.

The alternative world Night Watch presents is so rich with possibilities that it takes on a life of its own, both as an imaginative universe and as a vivid metaphor for the moral complexities of our own lives--for example, though the forces of Light claim to be good, their often brutal actions call their virtue into question, and the forces of Dark make some compelling moral arguments on the topic. The movie is so overstuffed with ideas that many don't get fleshed out, but that only contributes to the sense of vitality and unexplored dimensions. Even the subtitles are used creatively. The impending sequels (this is the first film of a trilogy) may--like The Matrix--take all the stimulating possibilities Night Watch raises and drag them into the toilet, but for the moment, this is the sort of electric excitement that blockbuster movies promise but so rarely deliver. --Bret Fetzer

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