OK. So let's get one thing straight first and foremost. Most of the time, when I see a horrible review, I am immediately intrigued. (I for one, love lifetime's made-for-TV movies from the 1990's. They are great-just great.) So I appreciate the camp movies, horribly acted movies or the "it's so bad, we've made it an honorary member of the movie club" film. But. . . . . I promise you. This is not a film you want to watch simply to defy my review. This was a hot pile of steaming mess. A hot steamy pile of messy mess that is awful. Just awful. First off, it was completely incoherent. Have any of you waited til the last minute to complete a project or do your homework? And when you go to turn it in and you look next to you and see your coworker's project or classmate's project and thought, "God. I really should have put more time and effort into giving mine the appearance of hard work?" -Anybody? Show of hands. A-ha. This is what happened here. The special effects superseded the need or possibly even the interest in creating a baseline for the movie's course. It was completely void of good acting, congrugent script writing, and furthermore, the "timeline" was WAY off. It didn't hold any integrity as a film. There was no backbone or "meat" to the story's purpose. It was truly fumbled together and the person who clipped all of these scenes together could have cared less or wanted to be sooooooooo far off in left field in an effort to attract attention, that he or she left that fu***** ball back on the field. Out of the game, my friends. I can usually muster up some compassion when rating movies and ultimately, I backpeddle, fearful of bad movie karma. LET ME TELL YOU, I'm willing to take whatever the Russian movie Gods want to throw at me because this was awful. Lastly, I find it difficult to believe that even Russians liked this film. And if they did, it was only because they were paid to be an extra in the film. Don't buy these positive reviews, people. I'm telling you-you will feel utterly betrayed and really. . . it will be like the Twilight Zone where you slowly back out of the room all the while keeping your eyes on the odd guy to your left.Usually, when I see a train wreck, I want to know the details. Not here. Don't care out the train went off track, we've already fired the conductor. Won't happen again. Gaaahhhd.

Night Watch by all means is a very good way of entertainment - Day Watch is the same thing, almost. This movie has some strange parts in it (eg, Anton and Olga body swapping) which is the only point of negativity that I will say about it.The Idea of The Chalk Of Fate might sound cheezy, it has some very good relevance to the plot and one time it is used makes me believe there will be no sequel (where can they go from Anton reversing everything that happened in both films?). The Character Development like the original is almost top notch, it makes Zavulon more of a prick than in the first one.Now I am responding to hated it reviewers that call it the worst movie ever made - These people have not seen Night Watch. Viewing Night Watch will make sense of this movie and therefore this movie will make no sense if you don't view the original, for a fantasy film expect that.

"Night Watch" was an enjoyable action fantasy with a slap of horror dashed in for good measure. Although the special effects were outstanding, they did take away from any sort of plot that was going on, which was already extremely difficult to follow. "Day Watch" attempts to make the plot even more confusing, but still remains almost as enjoyable as the first.The main problem here is the story, I didn't know where we were going or who people were half the time. I don't know whether this was down to the Russian names, or crazy plotting with "the chalk of faith" but I found it difficult to follow, however I did manage just to keep on track with what was going on. Like "Night Watch", "Day Watch" carries those same stupendous special effects that sometimes just took my breath away (car on wall- cough) which means that although the story was a bit loose, at least you could enjoy the better than average special effects that my eyes really enjoyed (they told me)."Day Watch" doesn't take itself too seriously. Which is good because if it did, it would be unintentionally funny, and is a breath of fresh air. Part of "The Matrix" problem was that it took itself way too seriously, so it just became this mega confusing, silly farce. "Day Watch" knows that it's completely insane and so just runs with it. A man can go into a woman's body, a man can wear someone's face, and you just don't care! "Day Watch" is also quite funny. I didn't think that I'd get it's Russian sense of humour, but luckily it rubbed off from the first instalment."Day Watch" not only has great action sequences, but it does occasionally have great tender moments. I really like Anton's character (not the one of Big Brother) he's interesting, and so is his relationship with his son. I know that I made out that "Day Watch" is completely hard to follow throughout, but there are actually emotional moments in their which humanise the surroundings. The editing is frantic and unusual, which seriously makes the pacing go through he roof! "Day Watch" may sit at almost 2hrs but it never gets dull.I have a few complaints however. I missed the animated subtitles that were in "Night Watch". They were compelling in itself to watch and made everything even more lively than it was. Maybe they didn't put them in because the pacing and editing is even more frantic than "Night Watch" but I missed them. I also felt really cheated with the ending. I'm not going to spoil it, but it seemed like a cop-out and made me feel that me watching "Night Watch" and "Day Watch" was a waste of time. Hopefully they'll resolve this problem when the third one comes out, but I'm not a happy bunny! I didn't think "Day Watch" was as good as the "Night Watch", the story sort of got lost and it's easy for you to get lost amidst the fantasy any-thing-goes narrative. And although the ending did seem like a complete cop-out and a waste of time, just sit back and enjoy the mind-blowing special effects, incredibly paced editing and exciting action. If you did quite enjoy "Night Watch" (like me) then you probably will quite like "Day Watch".

I strongly suggest watching or re-watching the first movie (Night Watch) if you're really intent on watching this one otherwise you will be lost. Day Watch does not cater well to new viewers. As a sequel to a solid first movie (that had good ideas and a fresh visual style), I found it rather disappointing, underwhelming and confusing. Some of the special effects were quite good but they were few and far between except at the very start and at the end. The English dubbing was so bad, I went back to Russian with English subtitles. I didn't like the story, nor how it was told. I also didn't like the "chalk of fate" aspect one bit and the ending is a big cheap cop-out.Rating: 4 out of 10