Mariya Poroshina Svetlana as Svetlana. Vladimir Menshov Geser as Geser. Galina Tyunina Olga as Olga. Viktor Verzhbitskiy Zavulon as Zavulon. Zhanna Friske Alisa as Alisa. Aleksey Chadov Kostya as Kostya.
Nurzhuman Ikhtymbaev Zoar as Zoar. Aleksey Maklakov Semyon as Semyon. Aleksandr Samoylenko Medved as Medved. Nikolay Olyalin Inkvizitor as Inkvizitor. Anna Slyu Tigryonok as Tigryonok. Timur Bekmambetov. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Anton belongs to the Forces of the Light as do his powerful girlfriend and apprentice, but his son is a powerful teenager from the Darkness and Anton protects him. When the balance between Light and Darkness is affected by the death of some evil vampires, Anton is framed and accused of the murders, and he chases an ancient chalk that has the power of changing the destiny of its owner.
First film of the year. Action Fantasy Horror Thriller. Rated R for violence. Did you know Edit. Trivia Anton is seen jumping through a poster of 9 rota , the previous record holder at Russia's theatrical box-office.
Goofs Tamerlane is speaking modern Kazakh language. Quotes [first lines] Narrator : Why does the wind come? Crazy credits The credits for the actors which appear at the beginning of the movie, are shown as street advertising reflecting on the car window shield. Alternate versions The Russian version is approx. Soundtracks Futbol by W K?
User reviews Review. Top review. Who translated this movie??? After reading the book trilogy I was looking forward to these movies. As in any adaptation, not everything makes it the screen. The movie was OK, I like the supernatural subject matter so I was able to stomach watching the whole movie. What drove me crazy is the translation!!!! I speak Russian and the subtitles were totally off. I understand that some things don't translate literally but in some parts the subtitles had nothing to do with the words that the actors spoke.
If anyone is in the industry, can you please enlighten us on the process of how the subtitles come about??? Do the people at FOX think that there will be no Russian speaking people watching the movie? FAQ 1. Whats the song in the trailer? Details Edit. Perhaps I ought to give this film the benefit of doubt and reward it with one extra point, because it's partly my own fault that I could never at one point get into the story and atmosphere of "Day Watch".
I still haven't seen the original "Night Watch" and thus probably some of the underlying themes and inside jokes were completely lost on me. I can imagine this sequel would be a lot more entertaining if you already knew the detailed backgrounds of the characters and eagerly anticipated the release of the trilogy's second installment ever since "Night Watch" came out, more than two years ago now.
But then still I think "Day Watch" is an overall disappointing film that basically hasn't got much of a story to tell and certainly doesn't deserve the hype and attention it's getting. This new franchise is mainly promoted as a horror and fantasy spectacle, but it contains very few elements that'll appeal to the avid fans to these two genres. I think "Day Watch", and presumably the other chapters in the trilogy as well, belong more to the new trend in adventure-cinema.
Plot, logic and suspense are of minor importance but the special effects team fires off one visually astonishing trick after the other and the pace is continuously kept at a high speed in order not to contemplate about the major holes in the plot. The film starts with a brief summary of the events in "Night Watch", spoken by a narrator who has one of the coolest voices I ever heard.
So our world exists of Dark Ones, Light Ones and a handful of half-breed species disposing of the skills and qualities of both. There's a generally respected truce between the two major groups and the members of the Night Watch and Day Watch closely observe the insurrectionists. Naturally, there's one super-mean guy, named Zavulon, who's seeking for a way to by-pass the truce and unleash and everlasting war between good and evil.
The dimwitted Anton who apparently played the hero in "Night Watch" and his colleagues try everything to avoid this confrontation which would lead to the end of world. All the spectacular stuff I've seen in previews and trailers of "Night Watch", like trucks crashing into people and children mutating into hideous monsters, are simply repeated here and the horror factor of it all isn't worth mentioning. Director Timur Bekmambetov awesome name!
Slapstick, even. The script often reverts to dull jokes and childish misunderstandings that are often the base of teen-comedies, like when Anton shifts into the body of his female colleague and finds out his partner has a crush on him. Maybe I should read Sergei Lukyanenko's books and find out, but I can't be bothered.
Despite the weak substance, "Day Watch" is nonetheless presented in beautiful package and it's worth a peep if only to admire the experimental cinematography and hectic editing. The acting performances aren't bad either, especially considering most of these players aren't used to working with advanced techniques and hyper-large budgets.
Let me say first and foremost do not even think of viewing this movie unless you've seen the first film. Simply put this movie just starts and goes, assuming that you've seen the first film. There are no reintroductions, just forward motion so be prepared, see Nightwatch. Picking up some time after Night Watch ends this film concerns two parallel stories Anton's search for a means of righting all that has gone wrong since he joined the Watch, and his framing for the murder of one of the Day Watch.
The two things are not of course, that far apart as everyone soon finds out. This is epic story telling and it covers a great deal of ground. Do not blink or go to the bathroom with out being able to pause this since this moves like the wind.
Unfortunately even with close attention a good deal of the plot is going to be clouded. There are lots of characters, lots of plot points many carried over from the first film which in retrospect I should have watched before I dove into this film. You can fee the film's origins as a novel bleeding off the screen giving this version of Moscow a very real sense of place. The action and craftsmanship of this film is almost without equal.
The set pieces are spectacular, there are things in this movie to make your jaw drop open the influx of American money can be seen on the screen in sequences that top the first film. The cast is amazing, creating some really good guys and some vile bad ones. Its first rate all around. I really did like this film a great deal, though I am a tad disappointed. I don't know whether its the fact that the story is too big for its two and a half running time, or if its the fact that it doesn't go where I expected it to go.
I think I'm going to have to see it again, preferably when I can see this not long after the first film. If you saw and liked the first film see this. If you weren't crazy about the first film you may want to try it. If you haven't seen the first film see that first.
Bunuel 2 November The Dark Side, then, has a tenacious and stunning-looking femme fatale decked-out with devilish hairdo ; however, she's brought down by her own unconvincing relationship with a teenage vampire!
A supernatural film that is the sequel to Night Watch. Anton Konstantin Khabenskiy is part of the forces of light, but his son Yegor Dmitriy Martynov has been captured by the forces of dark.
He has to find a way to save him with letting his trainee Svetlana Mariya Poroshina know what is going on. He must find the Chalk of Fate.
Timur Bekmambetov Night Watch, Wanted gives us a film that is sometimes hard to follow, but never boring. Glad Olga Galina Tyunina was so understanding. It does get very funny when Anton next gets together with Svetlana. But, of course, it doesn't work as planned, and Zavulon Viktor Verzhbitskiy the head of the Dark Others, goes after him.
Things continue to get strange, as you would expect in a supernatural film. Aaron 5 November This movie is of course a sequel, and like no other sequel before I say it is very important to watch the first one or you will be lost.
I watched the first one and I was confused here and there by this movie. So what do we have for a plot. It takes up a bit after the first one, as the dad whose son turned towards the dark ones at the end of the last movie is training a new recruit who he is a bit sweet on.
It took me a bit to figure out who she was, but I think she was the one from the last movie that was going to cause some destruction by cursing herself. Well, there are deaths that occur and people are framed. The whole movie is basically a plot to get a war going again between the forces of dark and light.
The son did not play as big a role in this as I thought as the movie was more about getting this chalk known as the chalk of destiny that can redo ones destiny. Some good action and some funny scenes as well, though there is also a most bizarre scene with the hero and his girlfriend in the shower. Doesn't sound strange, but when you see it you will understand. The movie is not without flaws though as the running time is a bit long.
I can easily see a couple of cuts that could have been made to shorten the length a bit. There is some gore, but nothing like one would find in a more horror oriented movie, this one is more action than horror, even more drama than horror.
The conclusion was okay, could have used a bit more here and there The special effects are rather good as well. So in the end, a bit better than the first movie, however, it still could have used some work. We were made to wait for more than 2 years since the debut of Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch, Russia's groundbreaking science fiction fantasy movie which promised a trilogy with the following two movies, Day Watch and Dusk Watch to follow.
The first movie opened to much fanfare here with overnight festivities and a graveyard hour premiere, but reality set in soon after that local audiences perhaps aren't game for something too foreign, despite it that it stuck to the familiar action-effects formula.
So Day Watch will soon premiere on the local screens with less of the ra-ra fanfare, and while it helped a bit with its summarized recap of the first movie, my advice would be to ensure that you'd watch Night Watch first so that the characters who appear don't look too odd to you, and it'll be more satisfying come the ending because it makes the two movies just perfect and a wrap up. Which of course brings to question Bekmambetov's original vision of a trilogy, because I certainly can't see how it can happen now without throwing a spanner into the works.
The movie continues from where it left off the first movie, fast forwarded 12 years, where Anton Konstantin Khabensky is still taking on the Master role in tutoring his new padawan Svetlana Mariya Poroshina , who is touted as possibly the next Great One who had joined their side.
Those of us in the know will already be in the loop what happened to the first Great One, and because movie prophecies are always self fulfilling, we get a hint of what's to come for the finale.
The movie still focuses on Anton, and he makes an interesting central character because he is just about as flawed as can be, and not the all powerful character given there are many others in the movie absolutely more capable and powerful than he is. There's no boy scout in his character to bore you, and he constantly does things according to his fancy, which almost always gets him into trouble, with his continued pining for his son. And it is this less than heroic characteristic, that somewhat endears us to his internal struggles.
The father-son theme also takes on another dimension with Kostya Aleksei Chadov and his butcher father Valeri Zolotukhin , but while it had a number of minor sub plots strung together, they rarely strike that emotional chord in you, as thee stories are conveniently serving as leads to the next big special effects scene.
Some of these scenes you can tell were added to show off the effects capability - they look beautiful, but don't further the plot much. Think of it as nice decorative flower vases, and worse, contribute to certain plot loopholes and implausibilities as well. But wait, we're talking about a fantasy movie here, so it could be forgiven. A gripe that I had was how wimpy the characters in the movie had become. What we have in Day Watch are plenty of scheming and plotting, and less of the fisticuffs.
Even when it came to slugging it out, they were less than menacing and quite ordinary compared to its grittier, and darker predecessor.
What made me chuckle a bit was the ditching of sensibilities and a tit-for-tat nod to Hollywood with its big bang disaster styled development, which certainly was uncalled for, but no doubt a you-can-do-we-can-do-too response.
And some might be irked by the cop out ending, that it's much ado about nothing after all given the brou-ha-ha about the all powerful Chalk of Fate , but it's an ending which is perfect when you put Night Watch and Day Watch together. One thing's enjoyable for sure, is the return of the funky subtitles.
Since the movie is in Russian save the English language monologue recap, and for non-Russian speakers like yourself, sometimes reading subtitles might be a bit of a bore. But kudos here, like its predecessor, for intricately crafting nice looking, effects filled subtitles to enhance our reading pleasure. For non-fans of the first movie, you'll probably give this one a miss, or for those who have not watched Night Watch, then you might walk out halfway given that it's relatively difficult to follow there were walk outs in the screening I attended.
But for the fans, then this movie is a reason to celebrate closure. Definitely an acquired taste! I grew up reading scifi novels from Russian authors and now, as I am bombarded with Anglo-Saxon movies and books, I see that there is a major difference in the way they depict the world.
It is hard to follow the dialogue, with the Russian accent voice-over and the impossible transitions from a scene to the other, but there is an underlying dark story that is hard if not impossible to be expressed by any Western culture and makes the film really stand out.
Imagine Constantine, the Keanu movie, but with a really complex relationship between good and bad, less guns, more rules and breaking of rules, all of this around a poor guy who only wants to get back his son from the hands of the evil that adopted him, but has almost no power to affect any change except when it matters.
Bottom line: the special effects were really good, the story was good, but the technical implementation left room for improvement. It would have been a smashing hit if they had Hollywood film editing and directing values but nothing else. Buddy 8 November Timur Bekmambetov's "Day Watch" has the look and feel of a deliberately manufactured "cult phenomenon.
Anton and Svetlana are two law enforcement officials trained to combat these otherworldly terrorists. It doesn't much matter if the story itself doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since "Day Watch" is really all about atmosphere and style anyway. Yet, for all that, the film is never boring and, indeed, all the visual and auditory stimuli makes it virtually impossible for one to tear one's eyes off the screen even for a moment. Thus, "Day Watch" will probably satisfy the niche audience for which it's aiming.
And even those with a lesser inclination for this sort of thing may find the movie watchable and even intriguing at times - even if it all does get to be just a tad much after awhile.
The second film in the 'Watch' series builds on the same strong cinema messages as the first one, but the surprise is missing here, and as in the Matrix follow-ups repetition without too many new elements makes the best ideas look a little bit tired.
A Gothic story of fight between good and evil is set in today's Moscow, which becomes the equivalent of the megalopolis in the American comics book cities.
It is seldom that a film succeeds to create so many memorable visual effects which completely put in shadow the story and the characters. This is really a pity, because I suspect that the story that the film is based upon is much more interesting that it's being presented here. I need probably to get to read Sergei Lukyanenko's novels to understand it.
In the meantime, 'Day Watch' is worth seeing for the exceptional visual quality, and for the characters acting especially the supporting roles which give a fascinating representation of a city living a transition between worlds, between light and darkness, between reality and legend. Although watching the action becomes tiring and confusing, the pace kills the development of the story and of the characters and makes it look much more a Hollywood production than a Russian movie, it is still a different kind of film, worth seeing.
It's been a few weeks since I saw the eccentric and wacky 'Nochnoy Dozor' which was a complete thrillride. Having seen the sequel last night, 'Dnevnoy dozor' a. It also makes up for many of the flaws that were in the first film which was still a fun watch in spite of them though I must add that it's better to watch 'Nochnoy Dozor' before watching this sequel as there are plenty of references that would otherwise be missed.
The larger than life characters, the twists and turns, the mixture of fantasy and science fiction and revelations in the second film all fit together in an odd comical way. The visual effects, sound design, light effects, art direction and cinematography are first rate. The action sequences and there are many are a delight to watch. The performances are pretty decent.
The suitably erratic score fits in smoothly. There're action, romance, carchases, bloodhunting, vampires, witches, time travelling, parallel worlds, a spiderchild, body swapping and many more weirdness that together make the fine ingredients for a delicious dish. What's not to like? Top 3 sequels that are better than the original rooprect 20 March I saw Night Watch on a whim a year ago and thought it was pretty good.
Well that was my mistake. In the history of cinema, very few sequels have been as good as the first. The Empire Strikes Back is one. The Silence of the Lambs is another.
The budget clearly got a shot of steroids after the success of the first, and this is evident in very slick, heart pumping CGI scenes. Funny I was never one for car chases but there's one here which alone is worth the price of admission. It involves a car driving on the side of a skyscraper, how cool is that.
But believe it or not, it wasn't the flashy effects and excitement that really got my attention. It's the way the characters were more confident, more human, and more charismatic than the first.
This led to much humor, sentimentality, and a very powerful love story--none of which detracted from the pace and action. In fact this is an excellent example of how breaks for humor and sentiment can greatly augment the momentum of a film. A word of caution to the English-speaking audiences. The subtitles, while adequate, do not cover all the dialogue. So if you have trouble keeping up with the plot, there's your culprit.
I watched it with subtitles and managed to hold on, but I was left with a few questions. I've since been told that this is one of the few movies where dubbed English is the best way to watch it. I dunno about that; I've never been a fan of dubbing because you lose the original actors' performances. But it's up to you. The latest news I heard is that the third installment "Dusk Watch" has been scrapped. Although that would be a sad development indeed, I'm not too broken up simply because I thought that Day Watch wrapped things up beautifully and no more needs to be said.
All the same, I hope this director and his troupe continue to make more films of this calibre in the future. Samiam3 24 September Ironically, there is something kind of impressive about the sheer sloppiness of Day Watch sequel to Night Watch I would never have thought it possible for a fictional movie to be this big a wreck and still allow me to follow the plot but barely Day Watch is ridiculously demanding of an audience members attention and it doesn't give us anything in return.
Day Watch collapses under the weight of too much content and not enough legitimate story. Regardless of whether this is a noble adaptation of the novel, it cheats a movie goer out of a good time.
I approached Day Watch hoping it would enrich the story of Night Watch, which had a cliffhanger ending. What I saw is a completely different ballgame.
All the same faces are back but the performance quality is so dreadful that these feel like new people. The ending is the kind that makes the whole thing seem pointless, and by the whole thing I also mean the plot of Night Watch. How ever much you may have loved the first, is not gonna be enough to make Day Watch a worthy investment of time.
This sloppy, overlong enterprise is in desperate need of a redo. The Dark Forces are winning because the Chosen one has decided to join them. Is it possible to change the destiny, to undo one deed in the past that could destroy the universe? The second movie in the series is as entertaining, dark, and funny as the first one, and the ending really made it for me. The scene of apocalypse - Moscow style was very impressive but behind the eye-popping effects and crazy car races, there was really an interesting story about the mistakes we make and how it is almost impossible to predict their significance, leave alone to correct them.
There were also stunningly beautiful girls on both sides of Good and Evil, running and fighting on high very heels. At least three of them were simply breathtaking, and the fourth one - a very good actress. A great sequel to the first.
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