Having read the story before-hand really helped me understand where the movie was going and how it fit into the larger picture. As another commentor mentioned, it is really strange how the Light and Dark forces were using clumsy medieval weapons during the intro first battle. And I wonder how this movie would be viewed by someone with absolutely zero prior exposure to the story.
Anyway, I love the cinematics! As I was dearly missing from the other DVD, I got a big kick out of the sublte (and not so subtle) use of the subtitles - that is just ingenious. As with the first time I watched the movie on the big screen, I was immersed into the movie and quickly forgot that it was all in Russian.
And what immersed me? The special affects are excellent - the attention to detail (ie, when Vampires issue a Call and the Anton's capillary system stand out in rythym with the heart beat), the quick cuts, the fast-mo slow-mo sequences, the lighting... Timur Bekmambetov just did an excellent job suspending the audience's belief (or disbelief if you will) in the Gloom, and the abilities of the Others.
The books have a lot more PvP, if you will, action scenes where a Light One fights a Dark One. There is not much of that in the movie at all (even in the Day Watch movie). We see the medieval battle scene repeated a few times with all its bloody gore - after the first time, I just did not care for it in and of itself. But where are the special abilities?!?!
We see Anton's Seer ability in affect, and we see Gesar and Zebulon pull some punches from time to time, but I still want more.
Love it.
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