Mayor Grom

This short movie displays just a very brief story about a police major Grom - a hero from the first Russian comic book.

It makes quite a positive impression: high-quality and with a decent sense of humour along with gripping stunts. Furthermore, it's amazingly incorporated into the modern-day Russia and therefore looks pretty realistic: its backgrounds of St. Petersbug's architectural beauties or some authentically portrayed Russian personalities and the atmosphere on the whole. Sure, it's not without exaggerations (especially, Russian police forces come across as rather too neat), but then again, it's based on a comic book which is supposed to consist of a few fantastic aspects.

In any event, the very shortness of this movie might play its most important part: the creators probably didn't have enough time to spoil anything. Hopefully, its forthcoming longer counterpart about the major will prove the opposite: our Russian contemporary film makers are not only capable of shooting superficial amateurish copies of Hollywood blockbusters but can also produce curious decent-quality works with their own authentic ideas and characters.