The Interceptor

Russian Special Forces agent Matvey is battered, bruised, disorientated and covered in blood. As he stumbles into the cockpit, he realises his partner has betrayed him, stolen the psychic weapon they were transporting, killed everyone and left him for dead. Plummeting towards the earth, Matvey gathers his senses, sets off a bomb and soars through the air landing in a deserted field. Rescued by a stranger, he lives a trouble-free life far away from his past but soon discovers that his former partner will use the psychic weapon to wage war against humankind. The celestial brotherhood of time-shifting Angels believe Matvey is 'The Chosen One' and to fulfil his destiny must wage war against the forces of darkness.

Cult Russian sci-fi author Vasily Golovachev wrote the bewildering screenplay (based on his own novel) about the conflict between light and dark, good and evil. In this respect, The Interceptor is similar to the screen adaptations of the Sergei Lukyanenko novels Night Watch and Day Watch. The plot is straightforward - man returns from peaceful life to save the world before bad dude uses weapon to enslave civilisation. It's the story that's bewildering. The celestial brotherhood of time-shifting Angels gives it a mystifying edge.


The special effects help to raise The Interceptor above its generic action-orientated roots. The visual team behind Night Watch and Day Watch have created a beautiful yet bleak futuristic vision filled with white utopian brilliance and black dystopian dread.



Special Features: None

Disc: The 5.1 Dolby Digital sound is like nothing else, swoosh, patter, patter, patter, screech. The English Subtitles are perfect.

Verdict: Konstantin Maximov's Russian sci-fi fantasy The Interceptor is a delightful wonderment of exuberant action and cerebral ecstasy. It is slick, sexy, stimulating and strange.




Check out the kickass Russian trailer :-