WARNING! The following movie has:1) A Melville-like, promiscuous stylized conman2) A criminal recently released from jail that demands Muddy Waters to perform well in a porn film3) A prostitute that loves a man and hangs out with dubious contacts4) A sexually frustrated woman with assassination impulses disillusioned with the current state of the revolution that pays the rent of the place where the aforementioned characters currently shelter5) A porn actress with criminal robbery potential that randomly accepts to go along for the ride with these morally rotten characters6) Konstantinos Tzoumas re-assuming his role as... Konstantinos! Just like he did in The Thrushes Are Still Singing (1979), so any fanboy like myself could declare this a loose prequel of the latter.7) A porn industry, with Konstantinos directing it8) Alkis Panagiotidis, not as "Alkis" this time, but as a mysterious blonde stalker with bizarre backup staring at the house where the aforementioned characters currently shelter9) Lots of Americana influence as is Nikolaidis' tradition, including an extraordinary soundtrack, as is Nikolaidis' tradition10) An excellent repertoire of classical music11) Spider-Man12) James Dean worship13) Marlon Brando worship14) Sex15) Violence16) Surreal imagery, including staged satirical necrophilia17) An absorbing, serial-killer like environment18) An Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer (1927) tribute19) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) appreciation20) Planned robberies21) Deceit22) Betrayal23) Suicide24) Misogyny25) An old man having a heart attack out of a striptease26) A single-shot anatomy class explaining how the body consists of the hunger of the brain, the hunger of the stomach and the hunger of the sex27) An action-packed, De-Palma's-Scarface-like climactic shootout28) In three words: Nikolaidis set looseSweet Bunch, written and directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and his mental fetishes, aka This Is What the Wretches Used to Sing.97/100
