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Summary: My heart was pounding throughout the film - AWESOME!!
Review: The Danish reviewer neglected to mention the brilliant performance of Josh Brolin. The odd friendship between the two male stars is intriguing and Nolte is a bit creepy, as well. This was one of the few films to keep me in suspense until the very end. You might want to close your eyes, but don't!!
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Summary: Nightwatch
Review: This dark and grisly tale is certainly not for the squeamish at heart. A young law student (Ewan McGregor), while working as a night watchman at the city morgue, finds himself the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders. Nick Nolte stars as the detective assigned to the case and is certain that McGregor is the killer. The acting is exceptional for a hokey thriller like this (it actually takes itself much more seriously than most viewers will) and many scenes are actually quite creepy, but the story has a few holes and the plot twists are telegraphed a mile in advance. Director: Ole Bornedal. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin, Patricia Arquette, Brad Dourif. Rated R for violence, gore, profanity, and brief nudity. 105 minutes.
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Summary: Want to be scared?
Review: This film was a beautifully shot, wonderfully acted piece of work. It is a true chiller with just enough gore to keep the sick and twisted interested. A truly creepy must see.
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Summary: ok,scary movie about a morgue attendent's nightmare!!
Review: This movie is about a young college student who takes a night job at a morgue. After he does this job for a while , he is framed for murder!!Nobody believes of course. Nick nolte plays a man trying to solve the murders. The movie is fairly suspenseful , but the filmakers showed wgo the murderer was a little bit too early in the movie. of course i thought the end was a littlr bit too predictable!!Overally a ok movie for a rental !Why is this not out on DVD yet!!!It would be better if was in widescreen!!
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Summary: If You Want a Ewan Fix, This Is a Good Bet.
Review: To add on to my review title:"If You Want a Ewan Fix,This Is a Good Bet -- If You Want a Great Movie, Go WatchTrainspotting." I'm a fan of McGregor's and have found that his taste in roles is eclectic and interesting to watch. His movies are solid, and entertaining. However, "Nightwatch" is... well, out of all the movies I've seen in the last few months, this is one of them. I wouldn't go out of my way to see this film, which I found fairly disturbing, and, though suspenseful, fairly predictable. Yes, it has a stylish direction, and Ewan turns in, a adequate performance as the illfated Bells, the necrophilactic tones are just... a bit much for me to stomach easily (and keep in mind, I'm fairly open to edgy films on the whole... but molestation of corpses is a little too much like glass shards on my film-digestive system). Don't watch this alone, but sure as hell don't watch it with your parents or kids either. END
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Summary: Not Your Average Suspense Thriller
Review: Well, considering the cast of this flick, it's no wonder that it's a good movie. It's a muder mystery about a serial killer whose victims are prositutes. The lead character Martin, played by Scottish actor Ewan McGregor (Episode 1, A Life Less Ordinary), takes a job at the local morgue. He's basically the nightwatchman, hence the title. As the movie progresses and the body count rises, all the evidence starts pointing to him. You are kept guessing throughout the movie. When the real killer initially reveals himself, it is a complete shock. If you want to see a movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat, I highly recommend this one. Enjoy!
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Summary: Another Example in an Execrable Trend
Review: Well, watch the original Danish version by the same director, now available with the director's comment on DVD, if you really want a scary and well-made psychothriller. Watch this one if you have extra time to kill, or cannot watch a movie with subtitles no matter what. The American remake certainly had a bigger budget and it shows, but all the elements that made the original such a quirky mixture of black humor and genuine thrills have been neutralized, not to mention the Danish local context, in which, for example, a gun makes no appearance until the climax of the climax. (Thereby making it more effective as a weapon) Josh Brolin gives a great performance, the only improvement over the original.
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Summary: Watch Something Else...
Review: When a respected foreign-film director re-directs his own film for a second time in a different language with a cast of Hollywood yuppie-puppies and a Scottish It Boy as the all-American dupe, warning lights should be going off like the 4th of July. Nightwatch is a painful exercise in redux and bad screenwriting which pits Ewan McGregor working in the city morgue against Nick Nolte, a police detective on a case of serial killings of hookers. McGregor's classmate and best friend is Josh Brolin, the kind of friend who is best left at home for family gatherings and formal dinners because his antogonistic sense of humor falls short on charm and social graces. Patricia Arquette is McGregor's innocent, nice girlfriend who believes her sweetheart is working nights so they can wed. McGregor completely miscast as an American law student finds himself the target of the serial killer and the prime suspect in the murder investigation of the killings which center at the morgue during his night shift duties. Although meant to be suspenseful, the majority of tensions is all too obvious as McGregor's character bumbles his way through clues the killer leads him with eyes wide open. Ole Borendal's original film is a far better version of this story. Ewan McGregor expressed in interviews his disappointment working in Hollywood after this experience. The film's ending was reshot after focus groups were critical of its outcome, however, nothing saves this film from its failure to entertain. On the plus side, McGregor exhibits tremendous talent as a screamer that later resurfaces in films like Phantom Menace, A Life Less Ordinary, and Moulin Rouge. Rental material, not a keeper.
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Summary: If a Fan of Ewan, then a MUST SEE
Review: With his Star Wars prequel debut just over the horizon, Ewan McGregor shines in this creepy rendition of the Danish film, "Nattevagen". I have my eyes on him as an up and coming young star, and next year, so will the rest of the world!
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Summary: Disappointed.
Review: You can see that this director is very talented. He has a very good sense of the language of the camera and creates some good suspense. But the script just died. It was obviously manipulative and dare I say "Scream-like". Killer kills, people are made ambiguously suspect, killer is revealed, killer is an arbitrary character.
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