With a take of more than $16 million at the boxoffice last year, "Night Watch" became the highest-grossing film in Russian history. 20th Century Fox -- which has worldwide rights to the science fiction film and its currently shooting sequel, "Day Watch," as well as an English-language third installment it plans to co-develop and co-finance -- means to turn the trilogy into a global blockbuster. The movie possesses everything today's young audiences are conditioned to want: incessant noise, jumpy editing, torrential music, shallow, overblown characters and sheer emptiness at its core. Imagine yourself trapped inside a two-hour video game, and you've got the "Night Watch" experience.

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