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 Night Watch (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Director: Timur Bekmambetov / Actors: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov ... more  Night Watch (DVD) ... ... / DVD released 24 April, 2006 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL / A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.Newest Review: ... being protectors of the Dark), burst in on the scene. The film then comes up to date with the present day, some 12 years ... more ... later, and Anton has joined the Night Watch and is investigating some Dark vampires that are tracking an innocent young boy. Within the boundaries of the Truce between the Light and Dark killing another 'Other' is prohibited, with the Night and Day Watch policing each other. Yet can Anton save the young innocent without breaking the Truce and risking his Watch being severely reprimanded?
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Night Watch (DVD): Night Watch - Nochnoi Dozor (1610 words)
by iToast - written on 06.01.08 (Very useful, 54 readings)
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~~Introduction~~ This is the second time I've written all this out, since the first time Firefox crashed on me just as I was writing the conclusion. Teach me to write reviews online right away instead of doing them in Word first ... anyway. I was given this film by my cousin for Christmas, who often gives me unusual films that have been out for a while now. This Russian horror film, Nochnoi Dozor in Russian, came out in 2004. It concerns the eternal conflict between Light Others and Dark Others, and the uneasy truce intended to keep the peace so that the rest of us can live in peace. ~~Plot~~ The film starts way back before the dawn of ...
Watch the Night as the creatures come out. (933 words)
by Ailran - written on 05.11.05 (Very useful, 230 readings)
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Night Watch, or Nochnoy Dozor, a Russian fantasy thriller, burrows into you, nestling inside you as you watch rapt with attention. Your eyes not wanting to leave the screen as you ponder every fact you can glean about what is occurring in front of you. Starting with a battle scene in 1342 between The Warriors of Light and The Warriors of Darkness that leads to a stalemate, and an agreement, Night Watch creates a world where Good and Evil manifestly exist. Where they acknowledge their opposites’ existence and recruit ‘others’, people with superhuman abilities of some kind, to their side, The Daywatch policing the forces of Good and The Night Watch policing the ...
Night Watch (DVD): At night the 'Others' come out to play (834 words)
by Darko3B - written on 01.07.08 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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"Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light" 'Night Watch' is based on the first book of a trilogy of bestsellers by Sergei Lukyaneko about supernatural beings, the 'Others', in modern day Moscow. With the film becoming a huge hit in Russia, and only coming in at a cost of a mere $4 million to make, it was quickly bought for world distribution by Fox. Yet can this foreign, gothic feature live up to the hype it has ...
