The most frustrating films are not those which are irredeemably awful; they are the ones which dangle the promise of greatness, yet somehow fail to cross that elusive, almost metaphysical boundary between genuine excellence and mere mediocrity. Timur Bekmambetov’s 2004 Russian fantasy action film *Night Watch* (*Nochnoy dozor*) stands as a prime specimen of this breed. It is a profound disappointment, a feeling ampl…More
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