So she staged the rape scene to get an excuse to go into his apartment and research his file? While he's making tea, she grabs the Plague Doctor file and starts photographing. Then he rescues a girl from two rapists and takes her home. To prove it, he conducts a lot of research on flame-throwers and plague doctors, and calls all of Kirill's friends and associates. Wait - I thought he was a little boy? Grom knows that he's innocent. A plague doctor killer? This isn't Gotham City! By the way, Grom is un-resigned. He tries to arrest Plague Doctor, but that flame-throwing ability keeps him at a distance. Not him? Or, with his time travel ability, is he looking at himself? Flames pour out of his hands and fry Kirill in his car. A vigilante dressed as a plague doctor throws Kirill out a window. Suddenly he gets a phone call: Lyosha (brother of the dead girl) has disappeared!Ĭut to a palatial mansion. The system is corrupt, bad guys go free, we can't follow the rule of law anymore, we have to become vigilantes. Scene 9: Grom eating pastries with the Chief and his wife, talking about Kirill. "Bad guys keep going free due to the corrupt criminal justice system! We need a hero!" He feels it personally because the dead girl and her brother were living in the same orphanage that he and his boyfriend grew up in. Scene 8: In his office, Sergei rants about this horrifying injustice. Shocked and horrified, he runs away, chased by thousands of reporters. Suddenly a news story appears about Kirill being acquitted. "What if they don't like it?" "I believe in you," his boyfriend says. Sergei (Sergei Goroshko), a feminine gay stereotype with a gigantic mole on his cheek, is about to unveil his new social media platform, Vimeste 2.0 ("Together"). Evil, who ran over a little girl while driving drunk: reckless manslaughter in the U.S., but apparently first-degree murder in Russia. Next story: the trial of Kirill Gretchkin, son of the famous billionaire Dr. Turns out that its owner, Olga Isayeva, duped its investors out of millions of rubles ( great, two young blond women in starring roles! They'll be impossible to tell apart). Scene 6: Newscaster Anna Terebkhina in the studio, talking about the bank that the cartoon-character guys robbed. What about Dubin? Isn't he supposed to be the by-the-books partner? Grom points out that he captures 99% of all the criminals in town every day, but the Captain still demands his resignation. The captain yells at him for being a loose cannon and destroying half the city (he's apparently unaware of the time-traveling). Cops are taking reports from humorous characters. Scene 5: Dubin (Alexander Seteykin), a kid with glasses and a backpack, enters the vast, ornate Police Protectorate, and gets a tour. Finally he catches the bad guys at the Winter Palace! But Grom from the past, chasing the van, crashes his garbage truck into the unveiling ceremony. Petersburg forever (apparently that van contained all of the criminals in town). Scene 4: In the future, Grom will get a statue for ending all crime in St. He goes back in time again, grabs a garbage truck and crashes into the van. He goes back in time and avoids being killed, but the bad guys get away ( wow, quite a superpower!). Scene 3: The solemn funeral (not in the rain!) of Igor Grom, Inside his coffin, the dead Grom thinks of ways to change the scenario. The man jumps inside, and is shot to death. Petersburg, chasing a van from which men in cartoon-character masks are throwing money. A man (Tikhon Zhiznevsky, top photo) running down the street in St. I was about to turn the movie off at minute 1.20. Scene 2: 20 Years Later: Whew, I'm glad that scene ended quickly. They're going to kill the dog! An outcast boy intervenes. Scene 1: Kids and a dog playing on a beach. Plus four reviews don't mention Major Grom getting a girlfriend. Loose-cannon cops, by-the-books partners, and wacko serial killers are terribly cliched, but since this is a Russian movie, it may be spared the "love interest" heterosexism. He is a loose-cannon cop fighting a serial killer dressed like one of those doctors who treated plague victims during the Renaissance (the long black robe and bird-beak). The title Major Grom: Plague Doctor is misleading and grammatically suspect: Major Grom is not a doctor working on the cure for a plague.
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