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Day Watch (2007)

Reviewed by Gregory Kirschling | May 30, 2007

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EW's GRADE

B-

Details Limited Release: Jun 01, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 140 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi; With: Konstantin Khabensky and Maria Poroshina

$\'DAY\' FOLLOWS \'NIGHT\' And there\'s still slight incentive to Watch this often batty Russian vampire saga$

'DAY' FOLLOWS 'NIGHT' And there's still slight incentive to Watch this often batty Russian vampire saga

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Last year's Night Watch was an almost unwatchably hectic Russian mashup of The Matrix and vampires, with edits so merciless and mythology so thick and Slavic it was as if you were watching a videogame by Tarkovsky. Day Watch, its gentler sequel, is no less nonsensical as it continues the story of ''Light Ones'' battling ''Dark Ones'' in present-day Moscow. If you don't take it seriously — i.e., if you're able to laugh at the notion of a piece of chalk that undoes time — the sequel is a minor wackjob head trip. B-

Originally posted May 30, 2007 Published in issue #938 Jun 08, 2007 Order article reprints

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