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Night Watch; Go see this movie!!!
Topic Started: Mar 6 2006, 10:30 PM (296 Views)
Grimshade
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Yesterday I went to see this movie I've wanted to see for almost a year now. It was originally slated to be released in the U.S. last summer, but for some reason or another it was delayed. Finally it was released on February 17 and made its way to the Dallas area this past weekend. Unfortunately it has not been widely released and is only playing in the Dallas area in the artsy indie-loving bastard lairs. The type of areas that I'd have to be drunk to go into ordinarily. These bastards with their nose in the air thinking that if its on a recognizable label or production company then its not worth a damn. Before I get off on another rant I'll keep on with this cool movie.
As soon as the movie starts you're thrown into this bleak, dark, and fascinating realm. I only scarcely noticed that it was subtitled. The spoken Russian adds volumes to the gloomy environment. The entire atmosphere of the movie is part of the story even the subtitles are as much a part of it as the gun or the rain. The special effects rival American cinema. The story is chaotic and engrossing. It's violent, exciting, and mind-blowing.
The story is set in Moscow where a battle rages between vampires or "Others" as they call themselves, of the Light and the Dark. The war is at a standstill as both sides are equal. In order to ensure that they all survive and not completely wipe each other out they form a truce. This truce is enforced by a police force of the Light called the Night Watch and a police force of the Dark called the Day Watch. It's an uneasy truce as both sides want to end it and start the slaughter. To this end both sides look to a prophecy of a great Other that will tip the scales and which ever side the great Other chooses will ultimately destroy the other. The story revolves around a Light Other, Anton, who "sees" that the great Other has come and he must find that person before the Dark takes possession and basically massacres everyone.
What really makes this different from other movies such as Blade, Constantine, and Underworld is that the lines of good and evil of right and wrong are blurred and you only notice subtly, but strikingly, the differences between the Dark and the Light. It really adds realism to the statement made by Anton to the great Other, "No one makes you choose the Light or the Dark. You simply decide and that's that."
I can't recommend this gothic fantasy enough. It was certainly worth the wait and did not disappoint at all. I know Bel wants the fighting action like Blade 2, and to that end I must say that this does not have that. But what it lacks there it makes up tenfold in story. If you do go see it I have one piece of advice: remember that it is the first in a trilogy. It does end in a cliffhanger. Oh, and if you don't want to deal with the subtitles just wait until 20th Century Fox puts out their version. As part of the agreement to distribute Night Watch in America the Russian company signed over rights to them to make an American version of the film.
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darkwynd
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This movie already premiered in Portugal about 3 months ago and everybody I knew that went to see the movie, talked wonders about it. Even the in the TV there was small trailers every hour.
Too bad I didn't had the chance to see it because I was packing to move to Spain.
Here in Spain, I'm not sure it went to the cinema or directly to videoclubs, but anyway I prefer to watch the original subtitled version than some stupidly dubbed version (that's the only thing I hate about Spain, they translate and dubb everything foreign).
"Humans were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse." - Good Omens


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