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Night Watch - kind of a mess.

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I had high hopes for this Russian import and it started pretty well. High production quality, good special effects and an interesting premise (as I understood it) that good and evil were so perfectly matched they had to agree to abide by certain rules and share responsibility for night and day time- hence the title "Night Watch" - there was also a day watch.
There was an interesting team of Night Watch personnel who traveled around in a jet propelled utility truck, and I liked the idea of different colored flashlights to spot vampires.
Soon however, there seemed to be much lost in the translation. Why was the "good guy" drinking blood? To help him get atuned tot eh vampires? Why did he use a mirror to "see" the vampires? I thought vampires could never be reflected in mirrors? Then there was the cursed girl with the "vortex" ????
About three quarters in I was so confused I could no longer follow the story.
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I rather liked it as a popcorn movie. - Analog Scott 08:40:28 07/11/06 (0)
Better than average plot for the genre. It actually did an excellent job of taking current trends in cinematography and editing and melding it with a tight story. Funny thing is I thought the production value and effects to be pretty weak. I didn't share your problems with the movie. Every genre movie gets the privilidge of setting up their own myth. So I have no problem wih vampires being seen in mirrors or good guys having to drink blood to perform certain magical tasks.
Re: Night Watch - kind of a mess. - Jack G 05:09:49 07/11/06 (0)
It wasn't "Good Vs. Evil", it was Light Vs. Darkness. One of the points of the movie, was that those working for Light weren't all "good", and had the same flaws normal people had, ie. the main charactor was an asshole, while those working for Darkness weren't all bad either. They did sort of rewrite the Vampire Mythos for the movie. Want to make another Vampire? You had better fill out the proper paperwork and get aproval first. Overall, I thought it was interesting, but not great.
The sequel is a bit more coherent.
Jack
I quickly became bored with this messy movie (nt) - townsend 18:07:59 07/10/06 (0)
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