Show moreĭon't expect depth here, but it's pretty entertaining. Subplots abound, with the charitable civic-mindedness of a Steve Jobs-like tech zillionaire (Sergei Goroshko) on display. Petersburg of its lawlessness, injustice and 'rottenness.' An eager new police recruit named Dima (Alexander Seteykin) plays the Robin to Grom's Batman and gutsy reporter Yulia (Lyubov Aksyonova) becomes his close ally in crime-fighting. The vigilante, called the Plague Doctor, uses a new social media app called Together to announce his intention to rid the powerful and wealthy St. He kills a billionaire murderer who has been let off by a judge. This comic tone is interrupted by the appearance of a vigilante in a high-tech outfit with flame-throwing hands, armor, and a Bubonic Plague-era bird's beak mask. Of course, he's back at work the next day. His boss, Fyodor (Aleksey Maklakov), his dad's best friend and Igor's mentor, regularly asks for the younger cop's resignation, which Igor signs. Often in difficult situations, he quickly runs various solutions through his head as he says aloud, 'Think, think, think,' then acts to save the day. Cut to a long sequence in which the indestructible Grom doggedly follows thieves in a destructive and unlikely car chase. The action opens flashforward to a small child displaying the criminal tendencies that will show up later, when he's an adult. MAJOR GROM: PLAGUE DOCTOR presents Russian police officer Igor Grom (Tikhon Zhiznevskiy), a loner who plays by no one's rules but gets the bad guys off the streets in his own unorthodox way. Adults smoke cigarettes and cigars and drink alcohol. Crowds of vigilantes attack innocents in the street. People are burned to death, blown up, beaten, thrown out of windows. Explosions, beatings, and fires are common. Petersburg, leaving a wake of violence and destruction, Injury, and mayhem in a big-budget way.

Grom chases an anonymous murderous vigilante in high-tech armor and a Bubonic Plague-era bird's beak mask through the stately and corrupt city of St. Language, including 's-t,' 'bitch,' 'ass,' 'pr-k,' 'damn,' 'hell,' 'balls,' 'p-sy,' 'scumbag,' and 'dirtbag,' is relatively infrequent. Although he has no special powers, Grom (Russian for 'thunder') is treated like a standard superhero with all the usual special effects, explosions, shootings, fights, elongated running time (136 minutes), and convoluted plot lines. Parents need to know that Major Grom: Plague Doctor looks like the first installment in a new superhero franchise featuring an iconoclastic, loner Russian police detective (based on a Russian comic).

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