8 reviews
The movie starts well: an island emergies on the border line between Greece and Turkey, and tension rises up. You expect to see something wonderful. But pretty much that is all! Nothing at all happens, you can sleep.
We must mention here, that movies about conficts between Greece and Turkey on an Aegean island are very common lately. They most support Turkey saying nasty things against Greeks, presenting them as crazy Hitler's fans! Weird, if you imagine that these movies are made by Greeks and aim to the Greek public! They also usualy repeat the moto: "The Aegean belongs to the fish"! That is why I didn't go to watch this film in the sinema, and I watched it today on TV.
So, this film is the most objective on the subject. It has some funny exaggerations, but is not a fanatic anti-Greek rabbish like the precenting films. It is more like a documentary. It shows the various types of Greek soldiers, that we all experienced during our national service. There is the fanatic who believes he can kill all Turks alone, the guy from Karditsa with the funny accent, the guy that is lazy and wants to just have a good time. Also the Chief, is as the most people who served many years: he drinks, is rude, lets his personal problems distract him from his obvious duty.
Now the girls: are the weak part of the movie. There is no reason to be on the island, they act like idiots, they are just annoying! And the Chinese merchant too! Also the dream with Fureira (the singer) is rediculous! An insult to our intelligence! Unfortunatelly the film is the first 10 minutes, then it becomes very indiferent...
- elenimenidi
- Nov 22, 2018
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The whole idea is very nice but it is really very bad written. I've watched bad movies in the past but this was the first time I started skipping scenes after 10 minutes. The cast is very good but even good actors cant save such a bad script. It's not worthy watching.
- alex-gotsis
- Jun 20, 2019
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- mountourixristina
- Mar 12, 2019
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I believe that the movie is interesting, for me the type of humour was ok because the whole concept of the movie is to criticize and sear the policies between the two countries ,especially Greece.But If you think that it is not politically correct to be joking for matters like these, the movie is not what you want to watch.
- ntsampalati
- Dec 3, 2018
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- dimitrism-22091
- Jan 21, 2021
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I loved the movie. I laughed too much and didn't want the movie to end. Very good actors and scenario.
I laughed a lot. There is a lot of black humor though so if anyone gets easily offended, better not to watch this movie.