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Nightwatch (1998)

Lions Gate Films / Year: 1998

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This edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller stars Ewan McGregor as Martin, a cash-strapped law student who took the wrong part-time job. Martin’s peaceful graveyard shift at the city morgue fast becomes a time of terror when a serial killer begins wreaking havoc…and leaving behind clues pointing to Martin’s guilt! Also starring Patricia Arquette, Nick Nolte and Josh Brolin, Nightwatch is a stylishly original motion picture that leads you on a shocking series of twists and turns.

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3 Reasons To buy this film

Made during Ewan McGregor's handsome, brooding phase.
It will keep you guessing... at least until you figure out whodunit...
Nick Nolte shows up to add some of his trademark gruffness.

Review

McGregor stars in this tepid thriller as a law student moonlighting as a security guard at a morgue. Meanwhile, a vicious serial killer is prowling the city, preying on prostitutes, whose bodies keep crowding the morgue. Is McGregor the killer? Is it the slightly loopy former security guard? Or Ewan's amoral, thrill-seeking best friend? How about the creepy cop on the case? The answer, unfortunately, is fairly obvious and uninspired. Director Bornedal (who cowrote with Steven Soderbergh) here remakes his own overrated 1994 Danish chiller Nattevagten, and sadly, delivers a carbon copy of that film, carrying its same flaws -- an illogical plot, a slack pace, and most damaging, extremely unlikable characters and needlessly unpleasant situations.