The Plague Doctor pulls the strings from up high but with some help from Grom and his merry band of misfits, they manage to capture him. With Oleg off the police force and the Plague Doctor descending on the city, St Petersburg erupts into riots and flames. When he dons the plague doctor outfit himself, Sergei becomes the darker, more irrational form of himself. This is a physical manifestation of his own dark persona, which for too long has been projected across into this idyllic version of his friend. He sees himself, complete with blackened eyes, pulling the strings. In reality, Sergei seems to be suffering from Schizophrenia. Oleg died back in the Syrian War and it has certainly affected him quite badly. Sergei has been imagining his childhood friend all this time as the masked vigilante. In reality, Oleg is actually just a hallucination. Throughout the movie we’re led to believe that Sergei is the right-hand man to murderous Oleg. The Plague Doctor is actually manipulating all these people, intent on killing two birds with one stone given his disdain for “lowlifes” as well as the rich. He convinces them this is the right thing to do, as they too don plague doctor masks before hitting the streets. He’s at the end of his ropes and about to be stopped but is determined to go down as a martyr. Late on during the final skirmish, the Plague Doctor convinces a whole host of rioters outside to pick up where he left off. After a string of killings to various powerful players around Russia, the Plague Doctor’s popularity skyrockets online via the social network Zmeste. The Plague Doctor plays on the crooked judicial system to turn society over to his side. This leaves Igor and his new sidekick Dima to try and put a stop to him before it’s too late. Unfortunately this also causes Igor to become shunned by his own police force after some rather heavy-handed methods.Ĭontrasting this though is the rise of a mystery masked vigilante known as the plague doctor. As this vigilante starts killing, society turns to his side given his promise to take out the upper echelons of society. The result is a refreshingly original and wholly familiar take on the genre.Īt the center of this is police detective Igor Grom who’s synonymous with managing to prevent crimes through any means necessary. Major Grom: Plague Doctor is a Russian action film that takes tried and tested tropes from different superhero pictures and blends them together.
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