Short Fuse (I) (2016) User Reviews

one of the same flowing fast

[stermix501 · 7/10 · 23 May 2020]

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!

A real trash gem.

[a_lektor · 5/10 · 10 May 2020]

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

A Greek Horror-thriller

[tkdlifemagazine · 6/10 · 21 April 2023]

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.

Too much...

[g_bit · 1/10 · 10 January 2021]

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.

A joke? Maybe! A movie? Definitely not!

[mickdamos · 1/10 · 10 January 2021]

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.

This is not a movie... it's a bad joke

[konstantinospeltekis · 3/10 · 11 February 2022]

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.

Good try

[chiotelis_kostas · 8/10 · 12 May 2016]

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!

A good effort

[csjkjpr · 8/10 · 5 July 2023]

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.