Day Watch by Timur Bekmambetov (2006)
4 August 2008I enjoyed this sequel to Night Watch just as much as I enjoyed the first film, though I have no idea what the 3rd film will be about, since this film seems to end the storyline created in the first film. Another very enjoyable and amazingly visual film. Bekmambetov did a great job here creating this alternate world. I can see why Hollywood snapped him up as fast as they could, lets just hope they make the sequel. This film has great visual effects, and looks amazing, and is very well acted. I really enjoyed this film. Amazing that 4.2 million can make something that looks this good in Russia, when that wouldn’t make anything here in the states.
This film starts one year after Night Watch still following Anton Gorodetsky (Konstantin Khabensky) who is now working with Night Watch trainee Svetlana (Mariya Poroshina) who he is also dating. She is more powerful than him though, possibly a great one, and this keeps him from doing much. They go on a mission, chasing a young dark one, and Svetlana manages to go into the second level of the gloom following him, and Anton has to try and get her out, and all they get is a hat from the dark one who turns out to be Yegor (Dmitry Martynov) his son, and he tries to cover for him. He even sneaks into the headquarters and steals the hat, and then gets blamed for Dark one deaths, though they are being done by Dark Ones, but he won’t give up because it will give up Yegor, and he doesn’t want his son in trouble. In order to make up for his sin of trying to have Yegor killed by a witch as a fetus, he wants to get the mythical chalk of fate, which can change ones own fate. It was from Asia, and found by a great warrior in the past.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Zavulon (Viktor Verzhbitsky) the leader of the Day Watch is waiting for Yegor’s birthday so he can become the great one who will tip the balance, but until then he frames Anton for murders in front of the inquisition, and that gives Anton 24 hours to prove himself innocent.
Gessar (Vladimir Menshov) the head of Night Watch transfers Anton’s brain into the body of Gessar’s lover Olga (Galina Tyunina). Anton as Olga then goes with Svetlana, and she admits to loving Anton, so finally Anton tells her it is him. Svetlana then wants them to go on their planned date, and they do, but the Day Watch sets up Olga this time as a killer.
Anton finally manages to get the Chalk of Fate from a guy in Moscow, but it will only work if done at the place that the fate changed, and the apartment building that he tried to have Yegor killed as a fetus has been torn down. Yegor shows up and steals the chalk, and tries to screw up Anton’s relationship with Svetlana. Yegor takes the chalk to Zavulon, but he can’t touch or use the chalk, so he gives it to his lover/slave Alisia (Zhanna Friske). She is tied to him by their wedding ring. She ends up calling in Anton’s vampire neighbor Kostya (Valeri Zolotukhin).
Anton makes his way to Yegor’s party which is filled with Dark ones, and gets drugged by Zavulon, but still manages to name the real killer, which is Kostya’s father (Valeri Zolotukhin) and clear his name. Still Svetlana rushes there to find Anton who she loves, and she accidently draws some of Yegor’s blood, which Zavulon sees as a violation of the treaty, and a pretense to go to war with the light ones.
Yegor has become a great one, and unleashes hell on Earth, wiping out a great deal of the city, and blinding Sventlana. The war has begun. Anton finds Aisia who is trying to bring back Kostya, but cant do it, so she gives him the chalk. Yegor and Svetlana find him though, and fight for him, and he is saved by Gessar.
Anton runs away through the ruins of the city to the building where he tried to kill Yegor as a fetus, which still has it’s one wall standing, and he uses the chalk, and changes his destiny in 1992. He doesn’t make his deal wit the witch, and never agrees to hurt his unborn child, and he becomes human again. He walks down the street and past Zavulon and Gesser, who bet on him knowing Svetlana. He sees he and they start talking, and walk off together.
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Wow, epic and enjoyable. What is the third story about? I want to find out!
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