2009 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Black Lightning
Directed by Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Voitinsky1h 42m2009
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.
Our read: Black Lightning (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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