Nightwatch is yet another installment in a seemingly inexhaustible string of stylish, sadistic serial-killer movies inspired by Seven. This time out, Ewan McGregor plays a law-school student who takes a job as a night watchman in a morgue. Soon, he finds himself framed for a series of sick prostitute murders. But as soon as the killer's identity is revealed, Nightwatch gets a bad case of the stupids. Leads go uninvestigated.
Common sense is traded for unsettling scenes of torture.
Bornedal traps us with his protagonists, but unlike the poor fools suffering on screen, we're free to leave at any moment. Copyright 2001 Onion, Inc., All rights reserved.