Nightwatch

 

Nightwatch 1997

 

• Director: Ole Bornedal
• Based on the book: No
• Cast: Ewan Macgregor, Nicke Nolte, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Alex Koromzay
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Ewan Macgregor – Christopher Robin, Doctor Sleep, Trainspotting 2&1, American Pastoral, Our Kind of Traitor, Mortdecai, August Osage County, Jack the Giant Slayer, The Impossible, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Perfect Sense, The Ghost Writer, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Island, Star Wars etc, Big Fish, Young Adam, Moulin Rouge, Little Voice, Velvet Goldmine, A Life Less Ordinary, Brassed Off, Shallow Grave
• Nick Nolte – Paris je t’aime, Hotel Rwanda, Lorenzo’s Oil, Prince of Tides, 48 Hours, Rich Man Poor Man
• Patricia Arquette – Human Nature, Ed Wood, True Romance, The Indian Runner
• Josh Brolin – Dune, Hail Caesar, True Grit, Milk, No Country for Old Men, The Dead Girl
• Why? Ewan Macgregor
• Seen: 21 November 2022 

       Martin (Macgregor) is a law student who gets a job as night watch at a morgue, expecting an easy gig where he can read and study all night.

       It gets creepy fast (duh) because there’s a murderer of prostitutes on the loose and there are corpses (duh) and Martin is scared…

       He has an obnoxious macho friend James (Brolin) who sets Martin up with a hooker Joyce (Koromzay) because he thinks it’s funny. So far the film seems pointless and offensive.

       It’s clever though. Twisted but clever. And it gets exciting. Seriously flawed but by the ends it’s not bad. 

2½ * of 5