Whatever grade you give Constantine (2005) or Matrix (1999), Nightwatch matches and exceeds. It is not a Blade (1998) nor is it an Underworld (2003) clone. The story is based on novels by Russian author, Sergei Lukyanenko. The overt storyline is given at the movie's website.

With the first Matrix movie, the story premise is: question reality. Are you sure what you and the others with you perceive is real? The premise in Nightwatch is: question what and who you have been told to be good and evil. Nightwatch's premise is far more complex than the premise in Matrix. In Constantine, the premise is that the intention behind the act determines whether it is good and evil. Nightwatch handles the question of good and evil in deeper detail and from different angles or tangents.

In Olympic diving, there is this thing called the "degree of difficulty score modife"r. The "dive" Nightwatch has done has a degree of difficulty higher than Matrix or Constantine.

Matrix and Constantine, in my head, scored like 9.5-10/10 for how well they they told their story's premise. Nightwatch, with its more difficult story premise and successful execution of it has made me rescaled. Nightwatch 10, Matrix/Constantine 9.

This Gothic tale uses two plot lines. The first plot line concerns the main protagonist, Anton, who discovers that he is an Other after he encounters them. The other plot line concern Svetlana. There is a good deal of subtexting within the two plots lines.

The subtexting deal with issues of fundamentalism, supporting a pro-life stance to abortion, the nature of Good and Evil and the importance of forgiving. Nightwatch espouses a conservative outlook without being fundamentalist. In its philosophical exploration about Good and Evil, Nighwatch does so without being ponderous. Better than Matrix (1999) in this regard.

The story premise in Nightwatch is that of independent thinking - to think independently and deeply, and come to your own judgement following the example of Anton as he resists both the Evil Others and fundamentalists within his own faction.

The uniqueness of the Nightwatch universe (compared with made in Hollywood Gothics) and the density of the subtexting make it easier to create a review of Nightwatch via its subtext topics in order to preserve foreknowledge of the story.