Movie Review: Major Grom: Plague Doctor (Netflix)

Major Grom: Plague Doctor

(Streaming): Jul 7, 2021

Director: Oleg Trofim
Producer: Olga Filipuk, Artyom Gabrelyanov, Michael Kitaev, Roman Kotkov
Writer: Vladimir Besedin

Cast: Lyubov Aksyonova, Tikhon Zhiznevskiy, Sergei Goroshko, Oleg Chugunov, Mikhail Evlanov, 

Aleksei Maklakov, Dmitriy Chebotarev

Genre: Action

Original Language: Russian

Runtime: 2h 16m
Production Co: BUBBLE Studios

When a masked vigilante's killing spree throws a city into chaos, a renegade detective and his rookie partner are the only ones who can stop it.

This was a nice surprise! Major Grom: Plague Doctor is based on a Russian comic book series about St. Petersburg detective Igor Grom and his pursuit of the violent vigilante Plague Doctor. When I watched it I didn't realize it was based on a comic book, but I was going to describe it as Batman (if Batman was a regular guy with a side of Sherlock Holmes) vs Lex Luther (he actually is an eccentric, genius, rich guy) movie...ha!

It is in Russian but dubbed in English. There's comedy, action, drama, a little romance, and the characters are likable. Everything a superhero movie needs.

Even though it smacks of DC characters, it has enough originality and some twists you don't see coming. Definitely entertaining and worth watching.

There is an after-credit scene. Creepy as hell, but awesome.

4 "" Sheep

SharonS