A year has passed since the premiere of rock ' n ' roll post-apocalyptic movie "Last Vegas", spin-off of the cult "Six-String Samurai" by Lance Mangia, filmed by young Moscow director and screenwriter Dmitry Kornienko. In June of this year the network has the first Chapter of its continuation — the series "New Graceland", which takes place in the same crazy universe, where the world destroyed by nuclear war is trying to find a new beginning in kung fu and rock ' n ' roll.

Last weekend I got to saw it and ready to share my impressions.

After the nuclear war, King Elvis with his colleague — Reverend Parker (Dmitry Andronov) founded the rock ' n ' roll monastery of New Graceland, whose novices follow the Path of the Singing Sword and Smashing Guitar, studying martial arts, philosophy and music.

Once the peace and harmony of the monastery is broken by mysterious killers and one of the novices — sister Jeter (Vera Gulyaeva) is forced to take the path of revenge and go on a dangerous adventure through the Wastelands..

Ready to repeat — take off his hat and ready to bow to the guys who help Dmitry with works on this project. Without a budget, on the enthusiasm and maximum commitment, and to aim a blow directly on the popular series format, involving an impressive timing, a lot of characters and locations — it is worthy of respect, and obviously felt that the experience over the Last Vegas has not been in vain and the first episode of "Graceland" leaves a lot of positive emotions.

First — stylized comic entry, competently introducing the course of things. Secondly — as in Vegas, there is a lot of good music recorded by American musicians of surf group The Madeira. Thirdly, of course, the fighting choreography, the staging of which involved real professionals in martial arts, Valery Bulatov and Dmitry Sever. Yes, it is, of course, not John Wick, but for an Amateur movie level performances and the cinematography is more than decent and I think will continue to be better, especially the end of the series there are always new footage from the set and apparently we're even more daring fights, overtures to trash-horror and so much more, the benefit of the mythology of the Wasteland gives wide scope for creativity.

Of the final assessment until the refrain, but the first episode pulls 8 out of 10 (and that one ball was removed for a crime of short duration),and for the show shoot in their spare time is pretty damn cool.

Watch first episode (with English subs):