Just watched the movie tonight with a friend after rewatching the first movie.
The movie takes place about 30 years after the first one and we follow Emma (played by Fanny Leander Bornedal) who is the daughter of Martin (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), the former nightwatch at the Forensic Institute where he and his girlfriend survived the attacks of the crazed serial killer, Inspector Wörmer (played by Ulf Pilgaard). However, the family never got over the trauma of that fateful night; Kalinka committed suicide when Emma was younger and Martin is now a broken man who don't speak of the events.
Emma, not a medical student, wants to break free from the trauma that has haunted her family, thus she starts by taking her father's previous job as the nightwatch. There she learns that Wörmer didn't die but has remained in a come-like state for the past decades at the Sct. Hans Hospital, the largest psychiatric hospital in Denmark. Emma makes an unauthorized visit to confront Wörmer, only that results in a new chain of fateful events in a bloody revenge scheme against those who sealed Wörmer's fate.
In general, I thought the movie was... okay! No more, no less!
It's an interesting rendezvous so many years later which could work on paper, however, there were a multitude of elements that didn't worked for me personally; although we get a lot of neat callbacks and a few intense moments, the new movie wasn't as scary as the first one, a lot of the characters felt more like charicatures (especially the new ones), and I guessed the big plot twist too soon to be taken completelly out of the whole movie watching experience.
Therefore, 'Nightwatch - Demons Are Forever' gets a 7 out of 10 from me!
The movie takes place about 30 years after the first one and we follow Emma (played by Fanny Leander Bornedal) who is the daughter of Martin (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), the former nightwatch at the Forensic Institute where he and his girlfriend survived the attacks of the crazed serial killer, Inspector Wörmer (played by Ulf Pilgaard). However, the family never got over the trauma of that fateful night; Kalinka committed suicide when Emma was younger and Martin is now a broken man who don't speak of the events.
Emma, not a medical student, wants to break free from the trauma that has haunted her family, thus she starts by taking her father's previous job as the nightwatch. There she learns that Wörmer didn't die but has remained in a come-like state for the past decades at the Sct. Hans Hospital, the largest psychiatric hospital in Denmark. Emma makes an unauthorized visit to confront Wörmer, only that results in a new chain of fateful events in a bloody revenge scheme against those who sealed Wörmer's fate.
In general, I thought the movie was... okay! No more, no less!
It's an interesting rendezvous so many years later which could work on paper, however, there were a multitude of elements that didn't worked for me personally; although we get a lot of neat callbacks and a few intense moments, the new movie wasn't as scary as the first one, a lot of the characters felt more like charicatures (especially the new ones), and I guessed the big plot twist too soon to be taken completelly out of the whole movie watching experience.
Therefore, 'Nightwatch - Demons Are Forever' gets a 7 out of 10 from me!