Stewart
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I seen this film recently, called Night Watch and I thought it was terrible. It's big on special effects - which were excellent - but the plot revolved around the tired old good guys/bad guys (in this case vampires) protecting something until a prophecy is fulfilled.
The film was adapted from a novel (the first in a series of four, I believe) and follows the contemporary struggles of the vampires of Light (Night Watch) and the vampired of Darkness (Day Watch). They are both after a twelve year old boy as he is prophesied to begin Armageddon - they both want to influence him to make his choice, to choose between Light and Dark.
I think the thing that lets this film down is that there are so many concepts and things happening but absolutely no explanation. The vampires can move into a place called the Gloom (rendering them invisible in our world); after incidents in civilian's lives they can find out they are an Other, a person who has a special ability (shapeshifting, for example) and must choose between Light and Dark.
No doubt the further stories from the books will received adaptations but I would hardly think they are worth waiting for. Like the sequels to The Matrix, they will appear as nonsensical filler. The only thing separating the two is that the original Matrix was good. The original Night Watch is just rubbish too.
The film was adapted from a novel (the first in a series of four, I believe) and follows the contemporary struggles of the vampires of Light (Night Watch) and the vampired of Darkness (Day Watch). They are both after a twelve year old boy as he is prophesied to begin Armageddon - they both want to influence him to make his choice, to choose between Light and Dark.
I think the thing that lets this film down is that there are so many concepts and things happening but absolutely no explanation. The vampires can move into a place called the Gloom (rendering them invisible in our world); after incidents in civilian's lives they can find out they are an Other, a person who has a special ability (shapeshifting, for example) and must choose between Light and Dark.
No doubt the further stories from the books will received adaptations but I would hardly think they are worth waiting for. Like the sequels to The Matrix, they will appear as nonsensical filler. The only thing separating the two is that the original Matrix was good. The original Night Watch is just rubbish too.