Before Night Watch planted Russia squarely on the international genre film map the reigning king of the Russian action box office was Antikiller, a hugely popular blockbuster based on a hugely popular novel about a former cop turned vigilante. The film starred Gosha Kutsenko, who has now become a familiar face to any fan of Russian genre film, and has since spawned both a successful sequel and a video game that proved popular enough to even succeed in territories where nobody had seen the source film or read the novel. And now they’re doing it again.
The third entry in the Antikiller series has been in the works for some time now - at one point Christopher Lee was to have a small part, though I don’t know whether that actually happened or not - and after a brief teaser that consisted of nothing but Kutsenko talking to the camera,...
The third entry in the Antikiller series has been in the works for some time now - at one point Christopher Lee was to have a small part, though I don’t know whether that actually happened or not - and after a brief teaser that consisted of nothing but Kutsenko talking to the camera,...
- 2/14/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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