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DAY 164: February 13th, 2009.
Night Watch
If there is one thing to say about this film, it's that it's imaginative as hell.
The film goes through great lengths to illustrate that it's about good versus evil. Although in the film they refer to it as Light versus Dark. At the end of the film we find out that it's not always that clear. The director went on the direct the over the top action film Wanted and the style is pretty much the same here, only this time it's in a totally different world where Vampires and other beasts roam.
Night Watch is like the recently released film Push, and what I mean by that is that the makers of the film have created a world in which they write their own rules and we have no idea what we are in store for. There are certain people with certain powers and each scene is something new that we don't know what to expect.
The opening of the film is set in medieval times, at least that's what it seems like, where a truce is formed between the light and dark. Flash forward to 1992, where we are first introduced to Anton, our lead character who goes to a witch because his wife left him for another. We are quickly thrown into this world and are shown what to expect from the rest of the film. People transforming into tigers, dolls spouting spider legs, invisible people, etc. It's in this scene we learn that Anton is an Other (no, he's not living on an island) he's someone who has untapped potential and must choose to be on the light side or the dark side.
12 years pass and this is where the story kicks in. Anton becomes a night watcher, who is someone who makes sure the dark ones don't break the truce. There are day watchers who do the same for the light. The plot seems simple, light vs dark, but because it's set in such a unique world it seems more complicated. We're not familiar with the things they are showing us. Flashlights as weapons? Okay...
The subplot of the blonde and the end of the world didn't sit well with the rest of the film in my opinion and seemed tacked on to broaden the story and the world, when it is ultimately not really needed. As interested as I was in this film and as imaginative as it was, I still felt detached from everything. The team behind this film is talented, but the story itself is weak.
There is a moment that seems like it was suppose to be a surprise, but at least for me I saw it from the beginning. There isn't a lot of action, just sequences that are bizarre sequences that try to pass itself off as action. A truck flips over in the middle of the street and lands back into position to drive off, a fight sequence with no real fighting. It also says that the new face of terror is "cool as hell", but I'm sitting here asking what terror? I'm still interested in seeing the sequel though.
Night Watch
If there is one thing to say about this film, it's that it's imaginative as hell.
The film goes through great lengths to illustrate that it's about good versus evil. Although in the film they refer to it as Light versus Dark. At the end of the film we find out that it's not always that clear. The director went on the direct the over the top action film Wanted and the style is pretty much the same here, only this time it's in a totally different world where Vampires and other beasts roam.
Night Watch is like the recently released film Push, and what I mean by that is that the makers of the film have created a world in which they write their own rules and we have no idea what we are in store for. There are certain people with certain powers and each scene is something new that we don't know what to expect.
The opening of the film is set in medieval times, at least that's what it seems like, where a truce is formed between the light and dark. Flash forward to 1992, where we are first introduced to Anton, our lead character who goes to a witch because his wife left him for another. We are quickly thrown into this world and are shown what to expect from the rest of the film. People transforming into tigers, dolls spouting spider legs, invisible people, etc. It's in this scene we learn that Anton is an Other (no, he's not living on an island) he's someone who has untapped potential and must choose to be on the light side or the dark side.
12 years pass and this is where the story kicks in. Anton becomes a night watcher, who is someone who makes sure the dark ones don't break the truce. There are day watchers who do the same for the light. The plot seems simple, light vs dark, but because it's set in such a unique world it seems more complicated. We're not familiar with the things they are showing us. Flashlights as weapons? Okay...
The subplot of the blonde and the end of the world didn't sit well with the rest of the film in my opinion and seemed tacked on to broaden the story and the world, when it is ultimately not really needed. As interested as I was in this film and as imaginative as it was, I still felt detached from everything. The team behind this film is talented, but the story itself is weak.
There is a moment that seems like it was suppose to be a surprise, but at least for me I saw it from the beginning. There isn't a lot of action, just sequences that are bizarre sequences that try to pass itself off as action. A truck flips over in the middle of the street and lands back into position to drive off, a fight sequence with no real fighting. It also says that the new face of terror is "cool as hell", but I'm sitting here asking what terror? I'm still interested in seeing the sequel though.