Major Grom: Plague Doctor

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. The action opens flashforward to a small child displaying the criminal tendencies that will show up later, when he's an adult. Cut to a long sequence in which the indestructible Grom doggedly follows thieves in a destructive and unlikely car chase. 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. 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. Of course, he's back at work the next day. 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. He kills a billionaire murderer who has been let off by a judge. 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. 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. Subplots abound, with the charitable civic-mindedness of a Steve Jobs-like tech zillionaire (Sergei Goroshko) on display.