What makes "Night Watch" so good is the fact that it's not a Hollywood movie. Yes, it's clearly been influenced by Hollywood movies like "The Matrix" but there's no doubt that it was made approximately 9,000 miles from Tinsel Town and that it was paid for in roubles, not dollars.
The story is pretty simple but it's the entangled relationships between the characters that keep you watching "Night Watch". Well, that and the bravura action sequences. There are some bone-crunching fight scenes in this film. I'm not normally a fan of CGI but "Night Watch" manages to integrate it into the story pretty well. There are only a few CGI scenes in the movie that look patently fake and they aren't dwelt upon for very long anyway.
If this is the sort of cinema that we can expect from Russia in future, I can see myself becoming a big fan.
The story is pretty simple but it's the entangled relationships between the characters that keep you watching "Night Watch". Well, that and the bravura action sequences. There are some bone-crunching fight scenes in this film. I'm not normally a fan of CGI but "Night Watch" manages to integrate it into the story pretty well. There are only a few CGI scenes in the movie that look patently fake and they aren't dwelt upon for very long anyway.
If this is the sort of cinema that we can expect from Russia in future, I can see myself becoming a big fan.