When watching previews during my "Phoenix marathon", I came across "Day Watch". I had seen this film before, so quickly wanted to mentioned that I loved this film. The special affects are awesome, the story line is fascinating, the characters are great. Even though it is all in Russian (and not dubbed), the subtitles are extremely tasteful, artful and entertaining in their own right.
Sergei Lukyanenko (the author of the novel) has an amazing story to tell, and the director (Timur Bekmambetov) delivered an excellent rendition of that story. I was blown away.
With Russia making awesome sci-fi games and now excellent fantasy-style movies, I have to wonder what the heck American movie producers are doing.
The chronology of the stories is very confusing. Lukyanenko has written two stories, NightWatch and DayWatch. DayWatch follows the other, chronologically speaking (the Talon of Fafnir follows the Chalk of Destiny). However, the movie is slightly misnamed, since the movie "Day Watch" tells the story of NightWatch. And I hear a third gook is either out or coming out. And Hollywood is picking up the next movie? I sure hope not, they might ruin it!
Just checked Amazon; apparently the third book ("The Twilight Watch") is already out. Amazon also tells me that the movie "NightWatch" came out before "DayWatch", but it is the prequel, and tells a different story then the book. Ay, corumba.
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