Sunday 5 January 2014

The Major - Russian - Action

It starts with a crime scene, which is more of an accident than a crime. A Russian police major Sergey is rushing to hospital, his wife is pregnant. And he unnecessarily speeds his vehicle and being unable to see a boy and his mother appear in front of the car, he ends up running over the boy, and killing him. He immediately gets out, locks the mother in his car and waits until the police arrives. Now seeing their senior officer there is an attempt to to suppress the evidence and make it look like an accident. Also they make it look like that the mother was drunk and it was she who was at the fault. And then starts a drama, which ends up with the killing of 3 policemen and 3 civilians. And the major is somehow is at the center of all the killings.

It is a thriller with lots of human emotions, and at the same time very realistically shot. Acting is superb. Film rarely has a dull moment. Something keeps happening always, and yet the plot looks very natural and twists are believable. It is a rare kind of crime drama thriller,  which holds you right till the end. And it also ask us lots of questions about ethics and morality. It also makes us realize the not so obvious consequences of corruption and crime in general.

Picture Courtesy : IMDB

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