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Day Watch (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 89
Fresh: 56
Rotten:33
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: Day Watch is frequently cheesy but it offers enough twists, surprises, and inventive action sequences to maintain viewer interest.
Runtime: 2 hrs 25 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release: Jun 1, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $428,837
Synopsis: Featuring the cinematic vision of cutting-edge Director/Writer Timur Bekmambetov, DAY WATCH (DNEVNOI DOZOR) is the next installment based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko.... Featuring the cinematic vision of cutting-edge Director/Writer Timur Bekmambetov, DAY WATCH (DNEVNOI DOZOR) is the next installment based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko. When the previous installment, NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR), was released in its native Russia in July 2004, it became an instant smash hit breaking all film gross records in post-Soviet history. Made for a mere $4 million, the film out-grossed both LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING and SPIDER-MAN 2 at the Russian box office, eventually taking in more than $16 million. DAY WATCH (DNEVNOI DOZOR) has done even better, grossing over $30 million. A dazzling mix of state-of-the-art visual effects, amazing action sequences, and nail-biting horror set in contemporary Moscow, DAY WATCH (DNEVNOI DOZOR) revolves around the conflict and balance maintained between the forces of light and darkness -- the result of a medieval truce between the opposing sides. This ancient war between the forces of Light and Darkness is reaching a tragic outcome. Each side has gained a powerful Great Other, who are headed for a clash, and Anton Gorodetsky is once again caught up in the midst of things. On one side is Anton's son, Yegor, who has joined the ranks of the Dark Others, while Anton's love interest Svetlana is the hope of the Light. But that's just the beginning of his troubles: Anton is on the run after having been accused of murder. Things are getting worse, and only the ancient Chalk of Fate can save the day. The problem is the magical Chalk has been lost hundreds of years ago... --© Fox Searchlight [More]
Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina
Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina, Galina Tunina, Victor Verzhbitsky
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Screenwriter: Timur Bekmambetov, Alexander Talal, Sergei Lukyanenko
Producer: Konstantin Ernst, Anatoli Maksimov
Composer: Yuri Poteyenko
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Release:
Sep 9, 2008
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- 5.1 DTS - English, French, Russian, Spanish, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentaries - Timur Bekmambetov - Director
- Behind the Scenes - "The Making of DAY WATCH"
- Trailers - 1. Russian Theatrical Trailers (6)
- 2. Russian TV Spots (16)
- 3. 20th Century Fox Previews (6)
- 4. U.S. Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews for Day Watch
Watch's supernatural police and Bekmambetov's rich visual palette give the film enough strength at least to throw a couple elbows to set itself apart from other nameless films with plenty of effects, but little vision.
... a mindless muddle - loud, slowly paced, and overdone; in other words, it is exactly like a bad Hollywood blockbuster, except for the subtitles.
While it's not as good as the first film, Day Watch is a nice alternative to the American horror flicks that have been polluting the cinemas this year.
mporei to epiko toy pragmatos na einai telika perissotero sto kefali ton synteleston opos kai i idea oti kanoyn kati megalytero apo holigoyntiano mplokmpaster, alla pantoy diakrineis ayti tin periergi slabiki ithiki kai se arketes periptoseis tin ieri tre
As ornate as a high class Russian samovar, Day Watch continues the battle between Light and Dark in Timur Bekmambetov's unmistakable high octane fashion.
Impressively directed with superb special effects, this is an action-packed fantasy flick that's actually more fun than the first film.
Day Watch combines the action sequences of a John Woo blockbuster with wonderfully self-conscious humour and hardcore human interest.
Even during its action sequences it is slow, confusing and apparently interminable.
A must-see for fans of the original, but a shorter running time and less energetic CGI excess might have done this flawed horror fantasy a serious favour.
A disappointing follow-up to Timur Bekmambetov’s ground-cracking debut that still holds just enough explosiveness to blow a few fuses in your brain. Watch for the set-pieces (killer balls, car chases, power lines used as whips) and ignore the rest.
The film undeniably has buckets of style, aided and abetted by some extremely funky animated subtitles.
Visually inventive and bleakly witty, this is a must for fans of off-kilter fantasy thrillers.
It relates to Night Watch the way X2 relates to X-Men: you need to have seen the earlier film to have a hope of following the plot, but it’s a bigger, deeper, more exhilarating ride.
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