"Day Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor)" **1/2 (out of four): For fans of 2004's "Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor)" - and I'm not one of them - you can expect more of the same from this overlong, stubbornly impenetrable sequel which puts anti-hero Anton in the midst of an apocalyptic fight between the forces of Light and Dark.
Billed as the Russian "Matrix", "Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor)" was an instant hit in Russia, becoming that country’s highest grossing film of all time. Dipping for the first time into the fantasy genre, Russian cinema was hungry and, judging by the grosses, they took to it like the Wachowski Brothers to slow-mo. As you'd expect, the inevitable sequel, "Day Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor)" (the capper, "Dusk Watch", is forthcoming) is bursting with everything that made the first one what it was. Frenetic camera work, absurdly dense plotlines and lots and lots of action. For what it's worth, "Day Watch" is never boring. But it's as confused and confusing as the first, and then some.
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