Red Sky (2011) User Reviews

Two Greeks fight over a foreign woman one summer...so what?

[aldebaran68 · 5/10 · 28 April 2018]

The film is well-made. Its dialogue is ...'convincing'. The two Greek male leads are quite adequate in their roles, as is the actress.

Aside from these basic points in favour, I really don't see what the point of the movie is. Two Greek men living lonely lives on the south coast of Crete, growing...bananas... end up both falling for the same German woman, and fighting over her... Maybe 'going bananas' is 'a metaphor' for their state of mind rel to her and each other... Sorry, but it is an obvious metaphor...

Now, why anyone should imagine that this story line, which must be repeated hundreds of times all over Greece every summer, between X million young Greek males and x million young female tourists, is worth making a whole movie out of is beyond me.

Its not a ;'bad' movie or i wouldn't have watched it all the way through. But it does seem pretty pointless. 'So what?' was my question at the beginning of the movie...and 'so what?' remains my question at the end if the movie.

So Greek

[vlaskman · 4/10 · 27 August 2022]

I bumped into this film unexpectedly as I was zapping on TV one summer night. Initially it grabbed my attention cause of the pretty nice cinematography and scenery and the young cast. They lay out the concept of the movie pretty fast. You have 2 good looking young men which are good friends and business partners, with pretty opposite characters. There is the beard bearer with wavy hair (who seems to always wear colorful plaid shirts) cool acting young man so confident of himself and the more reserved and sophisticated and less expressive one. A pretty young female tourist is also thrown into the mix having an affair with the 1st guy and there is also the beach and the sea, and so I was curious to find out what will come out of this. The plot however hasn't got to offer anything more than this, falling short of the positive start. I was impressed by how realistically and vividly is recorded the problematic relationship between the 2 friends, even though I doubt that was the purpose of the production. Its very typical in the Greek way of things people to behave irresponsible, selfish sometimes even out of the context of the law to each other and then act like there is no bad blood between them and be friends again. Behaving like that is considered normal and expected in the Greek society and I believe its a Balkan thing. Another dimension of the life in Greece is depicted by the orthodox baptism of the grown up Albanian worker. Again, I don't think that the director (or anyone else) included this for all the right reasons, however it is widely known that to be accepted from the Greek society (especially in small places), you need to be orthodox and that is pretty much what most of the immigrants (who decide to built their lives in the country) do, as a matter of fact is so typical of an Albanian to be doing that. My conclusion is that was an ok time filler.

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[spapyrou · 1/10 · 11 July 2021]

It was the worst movie I have ever seen!!! Insufficient and without plot the script!!! I' m sorry but it was so bad!!! 😕😕👎👎