There
is this series of movies that I thought I'd seen (at least one of
them) but it turns out I had seen a scene from it. The first is
called Night Watch. This is about a...okay. I just finished reading
the book two weeks ago after watching the movie so it is kinda hard
not to mix up the truth of the book and the stuff from the movie, but
I'll try. It starts off with these warriors (knights) fighting back
in the day. They are called Others. One side fights Light and the
others Darkness. After a huge battle they decide that they need to
cute this shit out or they will all die. Now humanity is allowed to
choose to be bad or not. Uh...yeah.
The
main guy Anton played by Konstantin
Khabensky goes to visit a witch to
get his girlfriend back. He tells her that she will miscarry and come
back to him. He's kinda hesitant (by the way, this does happen in the
book but not to Anton whatsoever and its actually in the second book
and now I will try not to bring the books up again) but just as he is
about to go through with it the Night Watch show up and stop the
witch and arrest her. This is what the Night Watch does. Makes sure
people don't practice magic illegally. Its 12 years later and Anton
is working with the good guys.
The
story starts to spiral out of control after this. He is tyring to
help this woman who has a curse on herself. There's this little kid
who is going to the bad side maybe but would really help the good
that turns out to be Anton's son that wasn't aborted (again...not in
the book!). They make it where this is all about vampire hunting and
Anton drinks blood when he hunts vampires or pigs blood if he really
has to. Don't believe what this movie tells you. The Night Watch have
no vampires on their teams ever. Vampires are looked down on like
crazy. So yeah. If I had written this review before reading the books
I would've given this movie a far more glowing review. But I can't
unread it.
Oh, my
lord. This movie confused the hell out of me. Yes, I read the book
last week but since this movie has nothing at all to do with the book
I don't even need to being it up again. This is actually one of the
three stories from the first book and has nothing to do with the
actual Day Watch story which is the conflict from the Day Watch point
of view which is awesome. In this his son is a bad guy after the last
movie and the cursed chick is working for the Night Watch. Anton
spends his time covering up crimes committed by his son which leaves
the Night Watch looking like asses.
There
is a Chalk of Fate that the bad guys want. When you use it you can
change the fate of someone who will have an impact on the world, good
or bad. The main bad guy, Zavulon, ends up letting Anton take the
fall for protecting his sons crimes. The Inquisition (team of Others
that sentence each side of the Watch) are gonna get Anton but he
changes bodies with this chick Olga who was a powerful sorceress that
was turned into an owl. No explanation is given in this movie.
This
movie confused the fuck out of me. I had watched the first movie and
this one the next day and I felt like I was missing a film in between
that didn't exist. There's a chick racing up a building to get
inside, a long ass party scene that does nothing to progress the
story, and just a jumble of special effects that are meant to look
cool but just slows the story down over this over two hours movie.
Don't bother watching this movie ever. The first one is cool,
especially if you haven't read the book.
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