Major Grom: Plague Doctor
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In present day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, pursues a vigilante murderer in the mask of a plague doctor.
Our read · Major Grom: Plague Doctor (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Major Grom
What watching it is actually like.
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