Touches You

The Age of Commercialism

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

I have to say, expecting nothing, knowing nothing, I was impressed. This is one of those rare hidden treasures to run across, in its chaotic unnerving kind of way.If you liked Let the Right One in, Hellboy, Neverwhere, and some of the more offbeat horror noir, like Close Your Eyes, this one should appeal to you.There's a minor thematic anti-abortion, understandable if you consider Russia's population decline, but I suspect that's what earned the film its haters. That said, the criticisms are pretty off base, the acting is quite good. There's an intentional dry-noir feel, and something of a chaotic world out of control that you get from a film like District 9. This is a lower budget film, so don't expect any serious cgi etc., but for classic noir fans, it's not needed, and probably wouldn't help.Overall it stacks up favorably against most good vs evil battles in that the characters and events have something real about them, not just strict servants of the story arc that you find so often in horror.I was pleasantly surprised, anyway.

I've been a fan of speculative fiction for quite a long time, no matter that books or movies, I just love them. I read the Night Watch novel not long ago and despite of liking fantasy less than the other genres under the umbrella of speculative fiction, I found this book extremely enjoyable, the story is great, smart and thought-provoking, the characters are interesting, the sophisticated fight between the Night and Day Watches is truly fascinating.So I decided to check out the movie as I guessed that such a great story couldn't be messed up. Maybe I was never so wrong. The story is only loosely connected the original, the once amazing and complex story was simplified to a silly, discursive plot; the once cool and special members of the watches were turned into a bunch of laughable idiots. And this newly added cheesy father-son relationship is physically painful. The only real good thing in the movie is the soundtrack. I'm truly interested what Mr. Lukyanenko thinks of this adaptation, but maybe he can be more forgiving as the movie brought him international popularity. An advice for you: pick the book!

I watched this movie with some friends it had been sitting in my basement for a while and I thought it was time to open it. The beginning of the movie was really good, the filming was excellent, the costumes wonderful, and we were all excited. But then came the rest of the movie. As the movie continued the plot did not at least for teenagers hopped up on caffeine at 1am.Some tying plot details are missing from this movie making it hard to follow if you aren't paying attention. However, the filming style, the costumes and some of the twists are worth watching the movie in my opinion.If you are looking for a easy to watch horror/thriller/action this is not the movie for you but if you want a story that gets you thinking or for criticism then this movie will work wonders.Also you should probably read the books, I know intend to now, it does seem like a really good story if it had all the details.

This movie was incredibly ridiculous and way Over-the-Top.In all the scenes from "Night Watch", there was something incredibly weird happening, and those weird things were presented in the cheesiest manner that somebody could imagine. And of course, none of those scenes made sense, being mostly a poorly written mess which combines in an awful way several elements from other stories and films (Such as "Underworld", "The Matrix", "Van Helsing", "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and even "Ghostbusters") but without any kind of interesting value, being both muddled and idiotic.I never read the book in which this was inspired, so I couldn't make a comparison between the two, but all what I can say that this is one of the dumbest movies that I've seen in my life. And yet, it is not even entertaining.The only redeeming quality of this film were a couple of visually interesting scenes, but that's it. I didn't care at all about the story and the characters from this movie (Which were mostly a bunch of tired clichés anyway)This movie was complete mess from beginning to end.