Black Lightning

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

This movie is a Russian Spiderman but instead of spider powers the kid has a flying car. Apart from that rather crucial detail, the plot, the characters, the tone, the feel of it all seems very similar.

The Australian DVD defaults to an english dub. I watched it in the original Russian though, the lip synch throws me off, but being primarily a kids film I guess the younger ones would prefer not to read subtitles… Unfortunately the only english subtitles available are captions for the hearing impaired, so you get a lot of extra details that you don't really want, nonetheless I prefer to watch in it's original language.

This was a very fun film. A few dark bits, the father being killed is a little darker than in Spiderman and the villain isn't as cartoonish. An enjoyable ride. Who doesn't want a flying car? Unless it's chitty chitty and you have to sing songs everywhere you go. I'd much prefer to fight crime in my flying car thank you very much.