Short Fuse

It has been a long time since worthwhile films have been exported from Greece. This one was filmed in 2016 at the start of a turn around in the an attempt by Greece's film industry to compete worldwide. This Well Go USA released Greek export is a thriller about a lawyer with an anger management problem, hence the title, who becomes the victim of a revenge plot against his family of lawyers. This plot doesn't merely involve the main character, Aris's death, but involves his punishment in a variety of tribulations. The film is fast paced and fun to watch. It is low budget film, for sure. The acting, script, and cinematography reflect that, but that is also part of the charm. This is a fun movie and, especially fun, if you are. Greek American looking for content out of Greece.

Mediocre directing, bad acting, bad scenario. The scene outside the Duccess of Placentia's Villa was a nice treat. Recast, write a new story and you might have something.

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.

OK. The plot is far from original. The idea-plot-dialog-photography was inspired SO MUCH from Saw movies! Sometimes so much that the dialog sounded like it was original scripted in English and then translated (if you speak Greek you will sound funny dialog not used in Greece but if you are watching this with subs I guess it will be OK). Despite that, the scenario was interesting enough, there was action and fun and I think the creators accomplished their mission and made a fine movie (for a non Hollywood one) The characters was also very inserting except from the main one. The main actor was short of talent and ruined the most of the scenes with unrealistic speech (like radio commercial actor) and movement. Good movie. Liked it better than a lot Hollywood high budget bad movies!

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