DAY WATCH (DNEVNOY DOZOR) Timur Bekmambetov (2007)
May 30th, 2007 by Scott Marks
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Day Watch (Dnevnoy dozor /2006)
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Written by: Timur Bekmambetov, Sergei Lukyanenko
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Zhanna Friske, Dmitry Martynov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Aleksei Chadov, Nurzhuman Ikhtymbayev, Aleksei Maklakov, Aleksandr Samojlenko, Yuri Kutsenko, Irina Yakovleva, Yegor Dronov
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Rating: 
“Night” gives way to an even more ominous “Day” in this bloody sequel to Russia’s biggest box office grosser of all time.
Being sick the week Night Watch opened, a pre-sequel DVD viewing was definitely in order. First impression: the Russkies are just as capable of producing incomprehensible, effects-driven vampire comic books as any teenage American boy.
Thank heavens an explanatory preamble was provided; it took the first five minutes of the sequel to make sense of the original. We’ll probably have to wait for the third installment’s pre-game summation to discover the finely-tuned narrative underpinnings of part two.
Both films begin with flashbacks to medieval times and follow an identical structure. For centuries the mystical forces that control light and dark maintained a wobbly ceasefire. Night Watch introduced us to Anton (Konstantin Khabensky), a vampire trying to save his son from the forces of darkness.
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