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D+ |
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| Story: |
D+ |
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| Acting: |
C |
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| Direction: |
D |
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| Visuals: |
B |
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Disappointing, incomprehensible sequel
by Jon (movies profile)
Feb 4, 2008
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While Night Watch was entertaining if sometimes maddeningly loopy, Day Watch is incomprehensible in any language. As I watched this film with English dubbing, my wife and I exchanged increasingly bewildered looks as the movie progressed. Initially engaging, it still took a bit of thinking to remember everything that had happened in the previous film. Virtually no attempt at all is made to tie the film into its predecessor, making me glad I could pause the DVD from time to time to just catch up.
After a fairly impressive beginning, things go into the “second level of gloom” soon after one of the main characters does. Plots, sub-plots, and sub-sub-plots quickly intertwine into an impenetrable furball of mind-numbing confusion. Completely gratuitous and bombastic action scenes (a car driving along the side of a building, horses crashing through castle walls) mix with bewildering plot-twists, such as where the main character swaps bodies with a female. All of this builds to a vapid and unsatisfying climax that leaves audiences as confused as ever.
Supposedly, this is part two of a planned trilogy. I’m sure hoping things improve by the third installment, but based on this film, I don’t think the series has any hope of being pulled from the gloom. |
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