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Day Watch (2007)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:17
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Day Watch is frequently cheesy but it offers enough twists, surprises, and inventive action sequences to maintain viewer interest.
Theatrical Release:Jun 1, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $428,837
Synopsis: This sequel to the Russian film NIGHT WATCH centers on an epic battle between forces of good and evil. An uneasy truce has kept the armies at bay for centuries, but that peace is about to end, and... [More]
Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin, Maria Poroshina
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
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Reviews for Day Watch
Top CriticAlthough more flashily assembled, pic's relentless onslaught charms less over a running time almost 25 minutes longer.
06/17/08
Top CriticDay Watch deploys head-spinning cinematography and cool special effects. It's a trippy affair, even if it's just about impossible to track.
08/04/07
Top CriticA noisy, incoherent, droning spectacle.
06/15/07
Top CriticAt 2 hours and 20 minutes, this zippy follow-up to Night Watch delivers a killer pace, blasts of heavy-metal, vexed characters, and gory allegory wherein occult terrorists suck blood, cast spells and escape to a spooky zone known as the Gloom.
06/15/07
Top CriticEvery bit as puzzling as its predecessor, but it's shot in such a bold, crazy way that you have to admire its pure audacity.
06/14/07
Top CriticSpectaculars don't come much more bombastic than this goth-Russian supernatural epic.
06/14/07
Top CriticOne hell of a movie.
06/14/07
Top CriticIn comparison [to Night Watch], Day Watch is straightforward, explaining what's gone before while telling a fantastical story and having fun doing it.
06/08/07
Top CriticIt's a playful, surrealistic antidote to standard genre entertainment.
06/08/07
Top CriticIt's exhausting just trying to imagine what 46-year-old director Timur Bekmambetov would do with Hollywood money. Yet, as puffed up as it is, Day Watch is redeemed by its sardonic, Slavic take on the end of the world.
06/08/07
Top CriticTo the credit of [director] Timur Bekmambetov, it is possible to dive into the second chapter of the ambitious, visually dazzling Russian fantasy trilogy that began with 2004's Night Watch without feeling completely adrift.
06/08/07
Top CriticWere I to tell you the summer's most awesome blockbuster action sequel involved a war over a piece of chalk, you'd laugh. But it's true.
06/08/07
Top CriticDay Watch may not suit everyone, but it opens a big can of Russian whoop-de-whoop on anyone willing to take it.
06/07/07
Top CriticIts imagination is limited. The backstory is shallow and pat. Its characters are mostly one-note. And everything goes on much too long at 133 minutes.
06/05/07
Top CriticDay Watch could have been shorter and simpler, but the same might be said for any of the current Hollywood blockbusters -- none of which offer as many surprises.
06/01/07
Top CriticBekmambetov and his crafty cinematographer Sergei Trofimov have so many different tricks that you'll be smiling at the scenes that make no sense.
06/01/07
Top CriticThere are many stunning special effects, including a car chase up the side of a building, as well as the sort of wild animated subtitles that turned up in Night Watch.
06/01/07
Top CriticDazzles and confuses with equal determination.
06/01/07
Top CriticWith what seems to be a freer hand and a bigger budget, Bekmambetov returns with an even slicker, faster-paced and funnier take on the black magical sub-castes born in the novels of Sergei Lukyanenko and Vladimir Vasiliev.
05/31/07
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