NIGHTWATCH is an acclaimed Danish thriller that I'd wanted to watch forever, after catching the passable English language remake with Ewan McGregor many years ago. Having just finished it, I'm quite surprised in that it's nowhere near as good as I was expecting. It's an interesting and quirky little thriller, low budget and with a finely creepy setting in the morgue, but I felt it was lacking something. The cast, including future megastars Coster Waldau, Bodnia and Grabol, are fine, but the characters less so, the two male leads extremely unlikeable in fact, especially in that awful scene with the prostitute. The first half is as slow as molasses although once things become murderous in the second half it gets a lot better. Not quite the masterpiece I was hoping for, though.
Review of Nightwatch
