Short Fuse

Mediocre allover...the plot the acting the silly voice on the phone....the unrealistic fightscene...Iam glad I watched it on TV and didn't spend money for it.

While 60s Greek cinema was great and can be re-watched incessantly, most modern Greek movies are cheap, bad, sexist and vulgar so I rarely watch them. I made an exemption for this one as it is rare to find greek action movie.

Full of cheap versions copy pastes of American action and horror movies, it remains something you can easily watch while considering not to! Camera work is terrible but maybe accentuated by bad streaming. Everything looks cheaper than a fans' video, giving however a real feel to an average Athens' citizen, while most actors are locally famous.

It is not a very long movie and it has some eye candy, so I would suggest you to give it a try without expecting much and you will like it!

Don't waste your time with this so-called movie! Prefer to go for a walk or to listen to a Cd, cause otherwise you'll end up swearing for the time lost watching this ''movie''! An absolute insult to greek and european cinema.

An enjoyable movie, certainly not an absolute masterpiece, but a solid action thriller. It plays nice with the cliches of the genre and with references to other, iconic films of its kind.

The script has a few plot holes, but this is not uncommon at all in the genre in general.

The dialogues in Greek do feel someone unnatural at times, as if the writer was thinking in american-english and writing in Greek, but I guess that this does not concern the international audience.

The acting is solid, especially by the lead actor. Miltos, one of the villains, is sublime.

The violence and the practical effects look great.

The setting of an action-thriller in Greece is what makes this film unique.

I certainly hope to see more of that genre in Greek cinema, as it certainly needs variety.

This movie seems like a movie a few teenagers with a large budget would shoot on video. There is a basic plot full of holes which Is actually not a plot but rather a gathering of all the Hollywood action movie clichés forged into a thing. The pace of the movie tries to show rapid and unstoppable but on some scenes its so ridiculous, like the one where the main hero drives a stolen porsche and escapes through some police cars. The direction is awful and almost absent in most part of the movie, actually it feels that wherever any scene needed some virtuosity to pull off, they decided to skip that tricky part and instead leave us with the mental intention of starting doing an action, as a begin of the actual action followed by a really bad montage instance, and suddenly the end of the action. The photography was also so bad that in many scenes it feels like you are watching a video movie. At some point where the hero gets to the factory in the last part of the movie every scene seems pointless and unneeded. I give it 5 out of 10 although I believe its real value is between 3 and 4, just for the cult factor and the fact it is a kind of a movie that we dont often see in the Greek filmography. Too bad that Greek cult film festival is no longer taking place, cause we have a trash gem here.

written by a_lektor