Fridae

The first film, Nightwatch, was a frantically-paced hyperventilating horror-action piece that made a killing at the Russian box-office in 2004. Now comes Daywatch, the second in the trilogy that will eventually conclude with Duskwatch.

Here, the same set characters have returned to reprise their roles as supernatural beings who walk the earth among us. They are called the Others, and they could be anything from witches and seers, and beasts and vampires. But they take on humans forms, moving around us in normal clothes and dark shades such that we are not aware of them.

Divided between the forces of good and evil, the groups operate according to an ancient truce struck to keep a balance between lightness and dark. But that truce is about to be destroyed because of a young boy (Dima Martynov), whose role as the long-awaited messiah threatens to make the evil forces stronger than the good.

Like Nightwatch, Daywatch has been shot in a frenetic, MTV-style pace that may or may not give you a headache. At times, the images fly by so fast you want to close your eyes and rest your mind for a while before being assaulted by the next batch of images.

Judging by the franchise's extraordinary box-office performance, however, young audiences should have no problem soaking in the sights and sounds, as well as understanding the complicated web of intrigue and characters. Older audiences, however, are advised to stay away.