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Low-brow and low-quality comedy targeted to the wide uneducated audience is what has dominated Greek film/tv/theater for decades.

Once in a while, there will be attempts to combine this particular brand of Greek entertainment with foreign elements. A couple of years ago Kako and Kako 2 came out and in the 80's there was Drakoulas ton Eksarhion.

In Minore you got bouzouki music and traditional Greek guys playing backgammon. You also got tentacled monsters that looks as if they were created with A. I software and some cheap looking gore. If that wasn't bad enough, the film lasts one hour and fifty minutes and for the first hour absolutely nothing happens.

It is no surprise Minore didn't last in Greek cinemas more than a week. It didn't do better with international audiences.

If the creators of Minore had taken their viewers more seriously maybe there would have been a more positive response.

"It's all Greek to me," summons up everything one can say about this film.

With lots of sex and violence, obviously influenced by Lucio Fulci, especially New York Ripper and Contraband, this is a precursor to the later films of the French extreme wave. It's not very well done, the pacing is terrible, it seems the French don't know how to pull off a decent action film. It's a mishmash of styles patched together in a haphazard manner, there is even an outdoor garden scene with meticulous framing that will remind you of the films of Eric Rohmer.

There is blood and extreme violence but the gore effects are not as good as those in Italian b movies. As long as you don't set your expectations too high it can provide the goods. It's also got a Greek guy as the main villain.