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Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor)
the one line review:
um. what.
the overview
Supposably this is The Matrix meets Blade meets a bunch of other crap. It's a valiant effort, especially a Russian production, but...
the plot:
Good damn question. Read Blockbuster's sypnosis and see if you can figure it out:
"The movie is based on the eternal struggle between good (Nightwatch) and evil (Daywatch). In the beginning before good and evil there was a virgin who was cursed by another human being. The curse then meant that anything that the virgin touched died, she brought damnation on her family… you get the idea. This created a vortex of evil around her, and so good and evil were born. Good and evil had a great battle which no one could win as they were too evenly matched, so they called a truce which has lasted for hundreds of years. The Nightwatch police the evil during the night and the Daywatch police over the good during the day. They are all immortal and some even have magical abilities, such as being able to morph into animals or have visions of the future, along with the usual vampires an witches (who are mainly on the Daywatch team). The immortals are invisible to normal humans unless they decide to make themselves visible.
In addition to the immortals there are 'others' , there are people who can see the immortals anyway. The 'others' also have the choice to become immortal, but have to choose which side they wish to join. this choice under the truce has to be made of their own free will.
There is a prophecy that a great ‘other’ would come to finally put to rest the battle and plunge the world into an era of either light or darkness. The Nightwatch and Daywatch have been waiting for this other to come to their attention and to claim them for themselves. Whilst waiting they have tolerated one another and even lived next door to each other."
Clear as mud? There's more, if you're interested.
the verdict:
It's not bad, it's really not, it's just too... bizarre... the guy in charge has clearly seen too many fantasy films and decided to make one, incorporating all the bits and bobs of the films he's seen. A great idea, but this just doesn't quite pull it off.
If you like zombie films, and tongue-in-cheek-but-serious-really-slash-'em-up-type it's-the-Apocalypse type films then it might be worth a look.
Oh yeh - this is actually part 1 of a trilogy - part 2, out this year is "Day Watch" and part 3, scheduled for 2007 is, would you believe "Dusk Watch". Genius.
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