No, sorry, this is not a film about the DC Comics character of the same name, even though this Black Lightning is a superhero movie...
If you were fortunate enough to watch either of Russian-Kazakh director
Timur Bekmambetov's stylish vampire movies
Day Watch or
Night Watch, then you know what the Russians can do with with a modest film budget. Though Bekmambetov has made the move to Hollywood--he directed last year's smash hit
Wanted and is currently working on
Wanted 2--he is still keeping one foot in the Russian film industry. His latest production,
Чёрная молния or
Chernaya Molniya, translated as
Black Lightning in English, was filmed for only $8M and has been described as the Russian answer to
Batman and
Transformers. It revolves around a Moscow University student who discovers that his used Volga is a lot more than it seems. Flying over Moscow, the student and his car become...
Black Lightning!
Black Lightning is directed by
Alexandr Voitinsky and
Dmitriy Kiselev.