GUARDIANS OF THE NIGHT is another CGI-enhanced horror/fantasy/action flick that hails from Russia and seems to use Hollywood's UNDERWORLD franchise as the main source of inspiration. The story is very much like that of NIGHT WATCH and DAY WATCH and the film looks and feels like those films too: slick, expensive, somehow artificial, and very shallow indeed. I did enjoy it more than the aforementioned movies, but only just. This is very much a generic humans vs. vampires story with all manner of action, from shooting to fight scenes, chases and the like. Every action scene is augmented by copious use of CGI which somehow feels flat, although it's superior to that seen in films made by The Asylum, for example. In addition, the characters are underwritten and the plot twists cliched.
Review of Guardians of the Night
