When it comes to picking films to showcase here on Short of the Week, we tend to avoid the plotless music videos—you know, the stuff that is all visual pizzazz and no substance.  But, then, we go ahead and feature something like the newest music video from Russia punk band Biting Elbows, and we eat our words.

I won’t try to defend this fast-paced, first-person music video as a tenant to the hallmarks of story, but I dare you—scratch that, I double-dog dare you— to watch this and not be amazed. And, really, amazed is the perfect word here. You’ll be amazed by the video’s pacing, its effects, its insane stunt work and energy.  Moscow-based director Ilya Naishuller has crafted a set piece more dazzling than a thousand bland Hollywood chase sequences. It’s a compilation of action movie tropes, each remixed, injected with a syringe full of adrenaline, and then spat out through the lens of a GoPro.  Frankly, I was out of breath just watching this, and I mean that as the most sincere of compliments.

As a follow-up to the band’s original first person, office-escape music video, The Stampede, Bad Motherf*cker is a the type of thing that’s destined to go viral (hell, after only being released for day, it’s already blown up on YouTube and Vimeo). This is eye-candy plain and simple. And, you know what? I’m fine with that. Sometimes it’s okay to take off the beret and monocle and just relish in genuine visceral thrills, especially when the end product is as well-made as this. The video hits you like a sledgehammer—a perfect compliment to the devil-may-care punk rock anthem it visualizes. And, at a brisk four minutes, it’s an experience that doesn’t outlive it’s welcome. Hit play. Consume. Smile. Catch your breath.

Let’s just hope that Ilya Naishuller is willing to share with us a full behind-the-scenes of how in the hell his crew actually pulled this thing off (right now, this brief clip doesn’t cut it). After all, I’m betting it takes an awful lot of technical know-how and conformity to make anarchy look this good.