Review: Night Watch
Russia’s biggest movie, and hence now also the biggest export product to date (with Fox Searchlight picking up distrib rights of this one, and probably financing the next two sequels), so I had to take a look what the fuss was all about.
Granted, with a paltry $4.2 million budget, it sometimes look very slick, including Hollywood style visual and tricks, but in the end, it’s the story that counts. And in this case, it’s a bowl of spaghetti. A simple story continues in countless meaningless threads, while only the 2 minute setup and 2 minutes end would have sufficed. Acting is reasonable, and so is the directing.
Touted by many fans as The Matrix with vampires, it couldn’t be more true. Too bad it’s literally so, meaning the structure and grand outline is the same (Good vs Evil, the One etc etc), so in the end, it doesn’t add anything new, except for the spaghetti I told you about (witches curses, vampires, prophecies, etc etc).6-.