Black Lightning

2009 [RUSSIAN]

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 54% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 54% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 5733 5.7K

superhero moscow, russia

Plot summary

A Moscow University student discovers that his otherwise unremarkable car can fly. After his father is attacked, he decides to use the car to fight crime and becomes the city's defender against an evil millionaire.

Director

Dmitriy Kiselev Photo
Dmitriy Kiselev

Top cast

Grigoriy Dobrygin Photo
Grigoriy Dobrygin as Dima
Viktor Verzhbitskiy Photo
Viktor Verzhbitskiy as Kuptsov
Andrey Nazimov Photo
Andrey Nazimov as Paren
Mikhail Efremov Photo
Mikhail Efremov as Alkogolik
720p.BluRay
976.71 MB
1280*554
Russian 2.0
NR
Subtitles ru  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by inevitabilio 6 / 10

Black lightning vs Mercedes Benz :) Spoilers contained

Reviewed by johnslegers 7 / 10

A Russian Black Lighting : mix Spiderman, Transformers, Batman.... and stir

Take the Spiderman movie, replace New York with Moscow, the spider suit with a flying GAZ-21 Volga, the green goblin by some billionaire in a flying Mercedes, throw in a bit of Iron Man, Batman as well as Transformers.... and you pretty much get "Chernaya Molniya".Say what you want, but this movie is just a Russian cocktail, throwing together several of the recent American superhero movies. Only, "Chernaya Molniya" is actually better, but I can't really pin down exactly why. Is it the Russian music, the Russian humor or just the overall exotic nature of a big budget comic style movie taking place in the heart of Moscow, with Russian actors and spoken in Russian?I don't know or care, really. All I can say is that I enjoyed this movie, in spite of its very cliché plot, its very cliché action scenes and its strangely familiar Hollywood style atmosphere. For those who're in the mood for some light entertainment but are tired of the same old Hollywood crap, this film is something like a subtle breath of fresh air. It has all the familiar plot twists, all the clichés and the same atmosphere of a comic style Hollywood blockbuster movie, but it's served by a Russian cast and a Russian director... that in some way makes it not just bearable but even enjoyable to a guy like me who's tired of the same old Hollywood crap.But maybe that's just me. Hate it or like it... but this is a movie I'm sure you'll remember.
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