Review – Night Watch

“Don’t watch” is more like it. Nearly a century after the ground-breaking work of Eisenstein and Pudovkin, Russian film-makers are still producing pictures that are both technically brilliant and extremely boring. The first half hour or so of this movie is full of fascinating, expensive and sometimes even innovative visual effects. But once the director exhausts his bag of tricks, the production stagnates into yet another dull vampire movie with characters and plotlines evocative of role-playing games. Further, in the dubbed version the dialogue sounds like it was recorded in the same studio that did the audio for the first Mad Max movie. Though this is the first installment of a trilogy, I think I’m going to pass on the rest of the set. See if desperate