Those who enjoyed Russian director Timur Bekmambetov’s canny take on vampire mythology, Night Watch, will be keen to see this equally adrenaline-charged sequel. While it’s true you’re not always entirely sure what’s happening onscreen, it’s happening in such a mind-blitzing fashion that you’re never bored for a moment.

Night Watch agent Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) continues his fight against the Day Watch, the powers of evil who conspire to find ever more complex ways to break the ongoing truce that exists between the two forces. What’s more, Anton’s young son is now one of their followers. As if this isn’t complicated enough, Anton also finds himself smitten by his new partner Svetlana, and when his current mission demands that the two of them swap bodies for a while, events take a particularly weird twist. Meanwhile the forces of evil are gathering and planning to plunge the world into darkness forever…

Yeah, I know, heard it all before, right? But Bekmambetov not only has the coolest name in cinema, (try saying it repeatedly set against a rap beat!), he also has a brilliant eye for jaw dropping visuals and the fact that he achieves them on 100th of the budget of Hollywood film makers is just the icing on the cake. There’s so much to relish here, not least a superb sequence where a Day Watch femme fatale drives a sports car up the front of a multi-storey building and in through a convenient window, while the ‘end of the world’ party comes over like a cross between a demolition derby, War of the Worlds and a Motorhead concert.

Don’t worry if some of it doesn’t actually make sense – that much was true of Night Watch - but Bekmambetov films just demand to be watched repeatedly, preferably whilst consuming your alchoholic beverage of choice, and it all bodes well for his English language debut Wanted, out later this year and starring man of the moment James McAvoy as a ‘new kind of action hero’. Can’t wait! Meanwhile, for all you turbo-vamp junkies, this should do nicely!