Synopsis
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage
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Cast
- Konstantin KhabenskiyAnton Gorodetsky
- Vladimir MenshovGeser
- Galina TyuninaOlga
- Mariya PoroshinaSvetlana
- Zhanna FriskeAlice Donnikova
- Viktor VerzhbitskiyZavulon
- Rimma MarkovaDaria
- Mariya MironovaEgor's Mother
- Dmitriy MartynovEgor
- Valeriy ZolotukhinKostya’s Father
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
Although this first chapter in a three-part tale is inevitably overburdened with back story, it ends on one hell of a cliff-hanger. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Director Timur Bekmambetov has combined two things that never connected before. He's taken a glossy Hollywood-type fantasy thriller about the battle between supernatural forces of good and evil right here on planet Earth and infused it with a homegrown, distinctively Russian soul. - 60
Variety
Russian-made pic displays pro technique and visual imagination on a par with, if not better than, Hollywood frighteners, but with a distinctive Slavic accent. - 60
Village Voice
Despite its cheesy blood and thunder and ludicrous "Sunshine Makers" metaphysics, this is the funniest apocalypse I've seen since George Romero's "Land of the Dead." - 60
L.A. Weekly
In the final act, the movie dons a more human face and commits to an absorbing tale of crime and punishment, albeit pushing the fatigued message that you can't always tell light from dark these days. - 50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The ending is a huge letdown, doing little besides setting the stage for the sequel… But for a good hour and change, the film is a big toy box that teases you out of the Gloom. - 50
The A.V. Club
The filmmakers don't seem to realize that if a movie with a mythology this groan-inducingly convoluted doesn't have a sense of humor about itself, the laughs are going to come anyway. They just won't be of the intentional variety. - 50
The New York Times
The film may be a mess - narratively muddled and crammed with many more vampires, shape-shifters and sorcerers than one movie can handle, but it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its own fiendish games.
