To be honest, when I saw Nighwatch first, I wasn’t too impressed. Too different was the set-up and the “feel” – it was too grotty, too unusual the visual effects, too much living in todays unglamerous streets of Moscow than the slick embiente of the American counterparts. Films like “Interview with a Vampire”, “Blade” (-except for part three, which was crap), “Underworld” and even “Van Helsing” all sported elegant, sexy Vampires and Evil guys. And after all, why shouldn’t they be? Like the Immortals of “Highlander” having all this time on your hands, would you not become rich? Would you not look after yourself?
In contrats to that, both the Good and the Evil in Nighwatch not only seem to live at the poverty line of Russian society, the idea that Good and Evil would literally be neighbours popping over to ask for a pint of milk or a bit of sugar seem to contradict all we know of the hatred between Angels and Devils, or Vampires and Lycons, Vampires and the Van Helsings…
And some of the storyline was very bizarre, bordering at times at the incomprehensible, as was the symbolism, the visual effects… but what I did like was the notion that the Evil one played out the various scenarios of his action in a role-game on a games console. Even the Devil moves with the times 
So, what to expect from the sequel to Nightwatch, the newly released movie Daywatch ?
Strangely, what I found a bit bizarre in Nightwatch, I much more enjoyed in Daywatch – the fact that it was not slick American made, but invented it’s own symbolism, visual style and pace.
Perhaps having seen Nighwatch, I was less puzzled by the visuals and symbolism – not that I would understand them now, but I was much more ready to be led by the movie rather than to see another installment a la “Underworld”.
So, I liked Daywatch, it’s visuals and imaginative symbolism. The storyline? Well, still the fight between Good and Evil to rule over mankinds destiny - as represented by Anton's son, who sides with the Dark Side. With some funny bits like the body swap between Anton and Olga - though perhaps the idea that there is a certain shock value to the viewer when two women will go out together and show what must seem a lesbian interlude to the unsuspecting onlooker may reveal still more about the conservatism in Russian society than in more liberal Western ones. After all, humour is one way to relieve tension.
Who wins? The Dark Others like in Nighwatch? Or will it be a “Deuce”?
Go and find out yourself. And enjoy the film. As I did.
