day watch
More goofy, intriguing weirdness continues with Day Watch, the second part of the cinematic adaptation of Sergei Lukyanenko's modern Russian fantasy trilogy. Underneath all its silliness, Night Watch, the first installment, did at least have an intriguing conceit that the good guys (the Light Others) might not be as good as we'd think, but one had to dig under a lot of silliness to get to that. This next part, though, forgoes the morality and just goes for balls-to-the-wall ludicrousness. The first movie had shape-shifters; this one has a man and woman changes bodies then proceeds to have the man in the woman's body seduces another woman. The first movie had vampires; this one has a conflict between the two greatest people on each side of the eternal struggle between good and evil (light and dark, if you want to go with the movie's mythology). The first one had a giant, swirling, catastrophic vortex hovering over Moscow. That can't even hold a candle to either of the new supernatural objects that are introduced in Day Watch: the Chalk of Fate and the Yo-yo of Doom. No one actually calls it "the Yo-yo of Doom," but how else would one refer to a yo-yo that incites the Apocalypse?
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