Narrative incoherence continues to reign supreme.

| Oct 20, 2009

Although more flashily assembled, pic's relentless onslaught charms less over a running time almost 25 minutes longer.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2008

There's a lot more to make your eyes goggle, too, as the Watches chase each other up, down and under the streets of Moskva.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Even during its action sequences it is slow, confusing and apparently interminable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 5, 2007

Big, stupid and nonsensical

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2007

A slog through endless death metal-powered action sequences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2007

The film undeniably has buckets of style, aided and abetted by some extremely funky animated subtitles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2007

Part zombie, part vampire and all a pain in the neck.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2007

It relates to Night Watch the way X2 relates to X-Men: you need to have seen the earlier film to have a hope of following the plot, but it's a bigger, deeper, more exhilarating ride.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2007

Day Watch deploys head-spinning cinematography and cool special effects. It's a trippy affair, even if it's just about impossible to track.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2007

Madly over-plotted, with overlapping time frames and puzzling sub-plots, it makes no concessions to neophytes.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Jun 23, 2007

[Director] Bekmambetov is a reckless and juvenile storyteller with a regrettable knack for empty spectacle.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2007

A perfect example of a filmmaking rule that seems to be true no matter what the country of origin - sequels are always bigger, louder, and crazier than the first one.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2007

It delivers more cutting-edge eye candy but defies any attempt at understanding.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 15, 2007

A noisy, incoherent, droning spectacle.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 15, 2007

At 2 hours and 20 minutes, this zippy follow-up to Night Watch delivers a killer pace, blasts of heavy-metal, vexed characters, and gory allegory wherein occult terrorists suck blood, cast spells and escape to a spooky zone known as the Gloom.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2007

Day Watch falls prey to the curse of most sequels in which 'more' is often a thin concept stretched beyond its limits and misconstrued to mean 'bigger and better.'

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 15, 2007

Every bit as puzzling as its predecessor, but it's shot in such a bold, crazy way that you have to admire its pure audacity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2007

One hell of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2007

The series' theme might be that the center cannot hold, but the idea gets played out too literally, as Day Watch can barely keep an idea on the screen for a few minutes before whipping off in a new direction.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jun 9, 2007