Black Lightning Review

Black Lightning


Release Date: 21st September 2010 -
Australia (DVD)


Production Companies
Bazelevs Production


Genre: Action

Rating: PG

Runtime: 100 minutes


Budget: $15,000,000


Plot Summary

A student’s life turns

upside down when he

discovers the battered

old car his father gave

him can fly… After

his entire world falls

apart he makes a choice

and shoots from zero to

hero as a crime fighter

known as “Black

Lightning”. Little does

he know that evil forces

are watching, they want

the incredible car, and

will stop at nothing to

get it, even if it means

killing him and

destroying the city.

Cast

Grigori Dobrigin - Dimitriy
Maykov/Black Lighting

Ekaterina Vilkova - Nastya Svetlova

Viktor Verzhbitsky - Prof. Viktor Kuptsov

Sergei Garmash - Pavel Maykov

Elena Valyushkina - Nastasia Maykov

Katia Starshova - Tania Maykova

Ivan Zhidkov - Maxim

Igor Savochkin - Boria Ivanovich

Valeri Zolotukhin - Pavel Perepelkin

Ekaterina Vasilieva - Olga Romantseva

Crew

Director - Dmitriy Kiselev

Based on Idea/Director/

Creative Producer -

Aleksandr Voytinskiy

Based on Idea/Writer/

Editor - Dmitriy Aleynikov

Based on Idea/Creative
Producer - Mikhail

Vrubel

Writer - Aleksandr Talal

Participation - Rostislav
Kriviskiy & Vladimir Neklyudov

Producers - Timur
Bekmanbetov & Iva
Stromilova

Production Designer - Mariya

Turskaya

Cinematography - Sergey Trofimov

Stunt Driver - Martin Ivanov

Stunt Coordinator - Viktor Ivanov

Visual Effects Supervisors - Pavel Donatov,
Oleksandr Kucherov, Oleksii Moskalenko &
Dmitriy Tokoyakov

Film Editor - Ilya Lebedev

Music - Yuriy Poteenko

Review

As I expected from 'BLACK LIGHTNING', it wasn't a bad superhero movie, in fact, it was similar to the first 'Spider-Man' movie. It was something original that viewers haven't experienced before. I really liked the concept of the flying car and how through the film, the car becomes its own character. I am surprised that the whole film was made in Russia in that this country is not well-known for being as technologically advanced as Hollywood filmmakers. They would have had to be very resourceful and efficient in producing 'BLACK LIGHTNING' with a tiny budget of just 15 million. 

Another underrated rare movie, 'BLACK LIGHTNING' deserves more credit than it was given. I should mention that you have to watch this film in either subtitles or English language on DVD.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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