I really wanted to like this movie. How often do Russian flicks get such a hype as this one and do make it big across the globe? Unfortunately, there's not much to like in this film (which is being advertised as Guardianes de la Noche in Mexico, if anybody wants to know). First of all, there's a lot of elements from other movies and comics we've seen before. There's something that looks taken out from the first Highlander movie, something that looks taken out from the Hellblazer comics and Constantine movie, the music sounds like the Graeme Revell score from The Crow which was done to greater impact on that movie, something from Hellboy (the truck scene), and there's even something from The Sixth Sense lying around. That's enough to keep you distracted from the main plot because all those elements really resemble the ones you've already seen. Anyway, there's a lot of eye candy, but nothing on the development of the plot suits the spectacular visuals which, by the way, aren't that spectacular either. Some things that happen and are really vital to the story fall flat. You know the overcome of the story from the moment they show the kid, and when you get to see it, it's not really powerful or moving. So we end up with a lot of brilliant visual ideas at the service of a really poor story come on, light versus darkness stories have been around since the dawn of civilization, so we needed something else to give us the sense of a really apocalyptic setting. But that 'something' never hits the screen. And I also think the rock music the used in certain scenes was somewhat annoying. The movie holds so much potential, but it's totally wasted because of it's driven towards the visual aspect and never stops to make these characters seem real and sad, which I think it tries to do desperately. While I was watching it I was wondering "Jesus, are they really going to try to do a trilogy out of this? Because it's pretty boring and unoriginal".
Review of Night Watch
