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Posted: January 18th, 2008.
This sequel to the Russian film NIGHT WATCH centres on an epic battle between forces of good and evil. An uneasytruce has kept the armies at bay for centuries, but that peace is about to end, and it will pit vampires, psychics,and witches against one another. Both factions, the Day Watch and the Night Watch, have beings of extraordinarypower called ‘Great Others’, and if these two people meet, a supernatural war will begin.
Anton Gorodetsky (Konstantin Khabensky) finds himself torn between his son, the dark side’s Great Other, and thewoman he loves, the champion for the Light Others. DAY WATCH (DNEVNOI DOZOR) explodes in the mind-bending spacebetween THE MATRIX and UNDERWORLD. The Russian film boasts the same visual verve as THE MATRIX, and it’s justas revolutionary. Director Timur Bekmambetov is operating on a completely different level of creativity thanmost of his peers, fashioning a unique world and jaw-dropping set pieces. The fate of the universe hangs in thebalance, but DAY WATCH doesn’t take itself too seriously.
From humour in the subtitles themselves to jokes atthe expense of the Russian bureaucracy, there’s a lot of fun to be had at the dawn of the apocalypse.Bekmambetov ups the ante with this sequel, improving on the original in every way. DAY WATCH may clock in atan epic 140 minutes, but it’s a tight film filled with action and style.
Extras include a trailer and a 26-minute making-of documentary.
Day Watch is released on January 28th 2008, and retails for £19.99, with a boxset also containingNight Watch coming out the same day for a fiver more.
News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2008.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.