Review Night Watch crushed by Pro-G

[Leo Valesko]

The whole idea of publishing movie and game outside of former USSR sucked. Both the game and the movie have a lot of jokes and dialogue lines that can’t be translated into another language.

Movie weren’t that bad because of it’s self-irony.

 

[Shagnak]

Night Watch was an okay movie; I thought some things could have been handled better, perhaps some things were lost a bit in the translation process, but it was still definitely worth watching.

I notice that the english translation of the (1st?) book has just turned up in my local bookstore. Worth reading (at least for any depth that the movie had to skip) or not?

 

[dunduks]

I notice that the english translation of the (1st?) book has just turned up in my local bookstore. Worth reading (at least for any depth that the movie had to skip) or not?

Book is definitely is better than the 1st movie as it has different story from the movie (it has a lot of the stuff that's just mentioned in the movie explained).

 

[Leo Valesko]

The book is a whole different story. Unlike the movie - there are no absolute “good” or “evil” characters. And Anton is more like a spy or a detective than an action hero.

I’m not a big fan of Sergei Lukyanenko but “Night Watch” is worth reading especially if you want to take a look at modern Russian culture.

 

[Balor]

Well, expecially first and the second parts. From third I'd say it was starting going downhill.
The ending of the fourth (so-called "Last, heh") Watch is expecially jarring. It just reeks of religious bullshit of worst kind.

 

[Leo Valesko]

I didn't understood what was a point of Merlin's puzzle in the "Last Watch". I think Lukyanenko just wanted to end it somehow because the plot is absolutely dull.