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Night Watch / Day Watch (Two-Disc Collection)

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

This DVD set includes both the brilliant urban fantasy NIGHT WATCH as well as the more toned down DAY WATCH.

NIGHT WATCH follows Anton Gorodetsky (Konstantin Khabensky) as he discovers he isn't a normal human and is an Other with magical powers. Anton chooses to join the forces of Light and spends his time hunting vampires, trying to remove a witch's curse, and stop the end of the world from happening.

DAY WATCH continues the story begun in NIGHT WATCH. It takes place two years later and deals more with the internal struggles of Anton as he struggles with the demons of his past while continuing to do the right thing. In the meantime, someone has framed Anton for the murders of Dark Ones. Anton finds himself on the run while trying to locate the mysterious Chalk of Fate that could enable him to reverse the wrong decisions of his life.

NIGHT WATCH and DAY WATCH form the first two films of a planned trilogy and owning them together in one set for the price of one film is a great bargain. Of course, you might just want to wait a few years until after the third film of the series, TWILIGHT WATCH is out and then just get all three.

I saw both movies in the series - and I can only say whoa; Ive send plenty of us action movies - but this movie made them all look like by third graders. The special effects are just mind-boggling. The story really takes wild twists and turns - you have no clue what to except next (compare that to cookie-cutter hollywood plots). I guess some people might say that story is hard to follow because - i liked - but even if - the end of the movie makes it all worth it. Character acting makes the scenes feel creepingly real - as they are very melodramatic moments from real life. Even if you are not usually into vampires & witches - still watch this movie - as the movie will quickly succumb with you in variety of different cinematographic elements (too bad its not availalble on blu-ray).

BEST damn action movies PERIOD

This was an English, Spanish, French only disk, not Russian.
Was disappointed not to be able to listen to the Russian
with English subtitles. Day Watch offered the Russian version.
Otherwise, I enjoyed both DVDs.

These are both great films but for some crazy reason the American version of Night Watch is not available with a Russian sound track. If you want to get Night Watch in Russian then order it from Amazon UK - the soundtrack is in Russian and there are subtitles in English and the Scandinavian languages. Also the European version has an extra character who has been cut from the American version. You will need to have an "all region" DVD player to play this as the discs are Region 2 (Europe and Russia). If you have an old DVD player then it will play as all region, they have only had regional DVD players in the US for about 4 years. If you have a Cyber Home DVD player then it can be converted to all region by checking the internet for the code to type into the player. Americans are the only people who have to put up with this regional stuff introduced by Hollywood; everyone in Europe just converts their players to "all-region" so they can play DVDs from anywhere in the world.

Both of these movies are like nothing you can expect. The director has taken the viewer on a cinematic adventure through his mind. Watch both movies in order and I promise you will not be disappointed.

Very good movies.
Full of effect and nice script.
The only bad thing is that there is no Russian language in the first DVD.
So, it's a very good choice for those who like action/fiction/with-cool-effects movies.

Just watched these Russian made Action Sci-fi movies and I have to say they are rather good. The visual effects are very, very cool. I did prefer Night Watch to Day Watch, but only because it seemed to have more happening than Day Watch. An action movie has to have action and at times I felt like Day Watch was more a Drama then an action movie. Even so they are very entertaining and I would watch both of them again. Don't let the made in Russia part scare you off if Russian isn't your native language. Both movies are dubbed in English, French, and Spanish Languages as well as subtitles in each language. But it's not the cheesy kind of dubbing where the guy is finished talking but his lips are still moving. Of course with any dubbing that will happen but your barely notice it when it does happen in these movies and it rarely happens. Strangely enough for a movie made in Russia the first movie in the series, Night Watch, doesn't have Russian Language or subtitles as options in this DVD.

These first two parts of the trilogy are, honestly, a mess. Visually there is too much happening and the steps the story takes almost make zero sense. When you strip it down to its basics--good vs. evil--it does work. When the director gets into flashbacks or parallel worlds it just gets wonky.

Having said that, the shots of Russian city streets at night are mindblowingly great. The B-movie vampire/werewolf/shapeshifter babe factor should be upgraded when the director does the third part of this trilogy.

I will give Count Floyd (the lead actor is a dead ringer for SCTV's Joe Flaherty) props.

The English dub of Night Watch is decent in addition to being able to watch it in the original Russian. I still found Day Watch a far more linear story and had a much more understandable setup.

If you're a fan of the Matrix, you'll dig this series. Vampire movie fans, I think you'll be left wanting more.

I really love the creepy feel of this movie. It is extremely well done for a foriegn film. I prefer watching it with subtitles to the dubbed version. It seems to lose a little of the creepy in english. The sequel doesn't give you the choice it is dubbed. I like that they came as a double feature. It had some pretty cool special effects.

this is a movie for action and fantasy fans. good story, great effects....dialog not so good ,lost in translation from russian to english. highly recommended