Find Movies & TV
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
Explore
Movies & TV Shows
Most Popular
Leaving Soon
Categories
Action
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
En Español
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western
Explore
Browse Channels
Featured Channels
Crime 360
Nashville
FailArmy
Categories
Bingeworthy
Movies
True Crime
News
Sports
Reality
Classics
Adrenaline & Sci-Fi
Comedy
Daytime TV & Games
Explore
Food, Home & Culture
Kids & Family
En Español
Global
Music
Sign In
Night Watch
Directed by
Timur Bekmambetov
R
2006
1h 54m
Fantasy
,
Action
,
and more
6.4
59%
72%
6.2
Add to Watchlist
A fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
More
Where to Watch Night Watch
There are no locations currently available for this title
Night Watch Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The punchy, nonstop visual effects crowd out coherent storytelling.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
For a good hour and change, the film is a big toy box that teases you out of the Gloom.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Bekmambetov is a confident, original director, whose visions reveal him as someone to watch -- beyond the next two installments of this trilogy.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
What a rabid beast is Night Watch. What a pungent Russian fantasy-horror cheeseathon.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Night Watch was one of the most popular movies ever released in Russia. That just proves there's no accounting for taste, in film or in human sacrifice.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino
Clarity may be lost, but rare is the movie that grabs viewers by their throats and never lets go. Bekmambetov's Night Watch is one of the grabbers.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
The faux mythology may be cheesy, the grandiose plot stretched thin and full of holes, but underneath the recycled story and style is a hint of something troubling and real.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Even though you couldn't call it a great science fiction movie, on the level of Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker it's often a great, heart-pumping, blow-you- to-the walls movie experience.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
If [Director] Bekmambetov had any skill in actually telling a story, his kitchen-sink trilogy would be something to celebrate. It presently qualifies as a dubious achievement.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Although it doesn't have Kate Beckinsale, her guns ablazin', vamped out in the latest vampire-slaying couture, Night Watch is vastly more fun than the similar-themed Underworld pics.
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
Night Watch works better as a demo reel for the state of Russian effects work than as a first installment in an epic trilogy.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Unfortunately, by Hollywood standards, Night Watch is about three Wookies and two Neos short of convincing. All the gobbledygook is in place, but the special effects are minimal and somewhat frustrating.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
The original plan was to remake Night Watch in English, and then thought was given to dubbing it. Thankfully both ideas were scuttled, as the film's Russian-ness and its allusions to post-communist fears and frustrations add greatly to its appeal.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Night Watch is shabby chic, with hints of Russia's great silent-cinema past.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Ultimately, it's a formulaic, predictable take on a Hollywood staple: the vampire horror film. That's a pretty tired genre, no matter what language it's told in.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
As opposed to the dreary domestic dramas that are [Russian] cinema's stock in trade, this one is a full-stops-out fantasia that is often disgustingly gloppy and looks as if it was birthed by the Wachowski brothers and Quentin Tarantino.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The film lives up to its hype with a style, swagger and substance that will appeal not just to the fanboys (and girls) but to their uninitiated friends as well.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I confess to a flagging interest in the struggle between the forces of Light and Darkness. It's like Super Sunday in a sport I do not follow, like tetherball.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The battle between good and evil, in its messy desperation, feels not like a comic-strip confection, as in X-Men, but like the foul-tasting hangover of something true.
Slate
Stephen Metcalf
If Night Watch is energetic, it is also frenetic; if neatly plotted, it is also too open-ended, a set-up for the remaining two installments of a trilogy.
Take Plex everywhere
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
See the full list of supported devices
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
