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Day 181: October 28th, 2010
Day Watch
Again...too much going on.
A sequel to Night Watch, which came out roughly three years earlier than this one, sees the main character, Anton, caught...again, in a battle between light and dark. This time there is a mysterious chalk that can alter time, giving the person who wields it unlimited power. Anton is also being accused of killing one of the dark people, which would break the truce they have. So there is a mad search for the guy, but he switches bodies with a female co-worker to hide from those who are known as the dark ones.
Yup, I had no idea where this movie was going. After watching it, I'm still confused as to what exactly happened. I prefer Night Watch because it set the world up better and introduced us to the things. The problem with this film and the first one is that there is simply way too much going on. Both of them are based on books and you can tell because there is a lot of backstory and detail in these films. If you don't watch them within a relatively short time period between each other, you might get lost. I sure did.
The film is way too long, clocking in at 2 hours and 30 some odd minutes. Even longer if you watch the unrated version. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood, but it felt like a chore chugging through this film. I completely forgot there were vampires in these movies until one character flat out asks another if he is one. I applaud the world created here, it has some interesting mythology attached to it, but I can't help but think things would be better explained if it were stretched to three movies instead of two. I realize they are doing a third one now, but it is with different characters and a different story.
The ending ties things up with the first one and it's always lovely to see a film do that. Day Watch is interesting, but maybe a little too interesting. So much that it tends to drag on and bore the viewer at times. Things happen so fast that it's hard to keep up with what's going on. Which is interesting, very few movies have so many things going on at an alarming rate that it drags, yet Day Watch just so happens to be able to do this.
Day Watch
Again...too much going on.
A sequel to Night Watch, which came out roughly three years earlier than this one, sees the main character, Anton, caught...again, in a battle between light and dark. This time there is a mysterious chalk that can alter time, giving the person who wields it unlimited power. Anton is also being accused of killing one of the dark people, which would break the truce they have. So there is a mad search for the guy, but he switches bodies with a female co-worker to hide from those who are known as the dark ones.
Yup, I had no idea where this movie was going. After watching it, I'm still confused as to what exactly happened. I prefer Night Watch because it set the world up better and introduced us to the things. The problem with this film and the first one is that there is simply way too much going on. Both of them are based on books and you can tell because there is a lot of backstory and detail in these films. If you don't watch them within a relatively short time period between each other, you might get lost. I sure did.
The film is way too long, clocking in at 2 hours and 30 some odd minutes. Even longer if you watch the unrated version. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood, but it felt like a chore chugging through this film. I completely forgot there were vampires in these movies until one character flat out asks another if he is one. I applaud the world created here, it has some interesting mythology attached to it, but I can't help but think things would be better explained if it were stretched to three movies instead of two. I realize they are doing a third one now, but it is with different characters and a different story.
The ending ties things up with the first one and it's always lovely to see a film do that. Day Watch is interesting, but maybe a little too interesting. So much that it tends to drag on and bore the viewer at times. Things happen so fast that it's hard to keep up with what's going on. Which is interesting, very few movies have so many things going on at an alarming rate that it drags, yet Day Watch just so happens to be able to do this.