Day Watch (Unrated) [Blu-ray]

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Customer Reviews:

Sloppy work [Posted on 2008-09-29]
What a mess! Amazon should be ashamed for putting this out without warning that the entire film is a sloppy foreign work which looks like it was filmed with a hand-held video camera. The entire mess is subtitled, but the pace of the film is so fast, and the film so shaky, that you can't read the subtitles. I am aware that the "buyer should beware," but Amazon should give enough information to make an intelligent decision when we are shopping from the comfort of our homes. I watched 15 minutes of this disaster, and for the first time in my life, I want a refund.

Can't wait... [Posted on 2008-10-20]
I loved the movie in standard definition. I don't have a Blu-ray player yet but I just wanted to make sure that the minute I get one I'll have Day Watch in Hi Def ready!

Great Film (Just watch it in Russian with subtitles) [Posted on 2008-10-26]
If you don't like watching movies in subtitles, then don't get this movie. IT IS IN RUSSIAN. The English version of this is pathetic, so don't bother. Its a very good film, but not a masterpiece.

style triumphs over substance [Posted on 2008-11-08]
Timur Bekmambetov's "Day Watch" has the look and feel of a deliberately manufactured "cult phenomenon." This in-your-face, aggressively stylish sequel to the hit Russian film "Night Watch" tells a hyper-kinetic but largely incoherent tale of vampires from another dimension who keep crossing over into the "real world" to wreak all sorts of havoc on the people who live there. Anton and Svetlana are two law enforcement officials trained to combat these otherworldly terrorists.

It doesn't much matter if the story itself doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since "Day Watch" is really all about atmosphere and style anyway. The ginned-up editing, the frenetic camerawork, the subtitles dancing all over the screen, and the twisty/turny scenario involving shape-shifting, body-switching secret agents all add up to a full two-hours-and-eleven-minutes worth of migraine-inducing sensory overload (not unlike a Robert Rodriguez film on crack). Yet, for all that, the film is never boring and, indeed, all the visual and auditory stimuli makes it virtually impossible for one to tear one's eyes off the screen even for a moment.

Thus, "Day Watch" will probably satisfy the niche audience for which it's aiming. And even those with a lesser inclination for this sort of thing may find the movie watchable and even intriguing at times - even if it all does get to be just a tad much after awhile.

It was okay [Posted on 2008-12-13]
After watching Wanted I looked up the director to decided to watch this movies and Nightwatch. Which they had interesting story lines the movies themselves were very slow paced with some very good action scene thrown in here and there. The story line got a little confusing here and there but I never read the book which probably could have helped. I would say over all, no harm, no foul.

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