Echo Effect (2015) Reviews

• Poor

  richardhowkins2015-09-11

  Now - seeing Steve Austin I wasn't expecting top class acting, but was looking forward to a good action film. What I wasn't expecting was the acting of the other people (Michael Jai White included) to be so pathetic that it actually made Steve Austin look good! Right from the off you could tell this is a low budget film, most of the supporting cast seem like they have been picked fresh from acting school (or the street!) and are just literally reading their lines rather than acting. For an action film I don't think anyone was actually told how to hold/fire a gun (Jai White was meant to be some kind of Special Ops soldier but his handling of a pistol didn't portray that!) Overall a very poor film in every respect - action film with little action and such bad acting it was embarrassing!

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• Poor plot and worse acting

  primehelicopters2015-09-10

  I've watched a fair few films with bad plots and bad acting but without a doubt, this one deserves its rightful place at the top of the list. Michael Jai White is normally a very good actor but I suppose that he can only work with what he is given and in the case of this particular film, he was given a big pile of ****. As for Steve Austin. I honestly think that when he was acting in the wrestling ring he gave a better performance than in this film and I think that the best choice of roles for him in future films would involve his being a tough guy villain who couldn't speak. In the end it probably all came down to good old fashioned $$$'s and the actors were made offers that they couldn't refuse even if they knew that the end product would be an extremely poor, instantly forgettable film.

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• Couldn't give it half a star!!!

  rpanchal-621652016-01-20

  Maaaan, this is such a bad film I almost deleted it from my device before watching it all the way through, however, having got 2/3 of the way through I owed it to myself to see if it got any better.......but it didn't. I was watching it on the train to work and was praying no-one saw me......it was embarrassing to watch. I thought it was meant to be an action film but it was mainly people just shooting people in the head. The acting is bad, the script was awful and the sound effects (dramatic scenes overlayed by music) were laughable. Stonecold and Michael Jai White should've steered clear of this after reading the script. Definitely won't be recommending anyone wastes 90 mins of their life watching this tripe!!!

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• Michael Jai White deserves so much better than this

  udar552015-11-24

  Micheal Jai White is one of the top direct-to-video action stars thanks to films like Undisputed II and Blood and Bone. His great martial arts skills are always complemented by his good acting. So how and why he got wrapped up in this amateur production is beyond me. Seriously, this flick is so flat and displays all of the style of something you would see on Hallmark or Lifetime. Even worse, director Kevin Carraway has very little insight on how to properly film and edit a fight scene (look for one shot where you can see the safety mat on the ground). Not allowing White to show case his abilities is just downright criminal. Add in a perfunctory plot and Steve Austin doing his best not to look off camera to spot a bank to cash his check and you have one of White's worst films in years. I understand he has to work, but I just wish it was with better people. I have no doubt White's forthcoming Never Back Down 3 will correct this.

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• I've Seen Better Vine Videos

  thamaddrumma2015-10-23

  This was a major waste of time. The post production was so bad I couldn't even watch all of it. Even if I did like the acting the sounds in the movie were terrible . My 5 year old could score this movie better by the way.. The music was cheap and bland... I could tell that they didn't have a budget but thats OK. Low budget movies don't always suck. But this had a budget of 5 million. It looks like it was shot with a family canon camera . There was a part where a man was shot in the leg. They decided to used CGI for the wound but the wound didn't move with his body so the CGI is dancing on his leg.. LIKE, WHAT??? Why would you do that? Who saw this and said " good job" ?? I am not trying to be mean but I paid for this and I am not happy. The two lead actors are good actors but they just look like they are doing this for a friend. I wish I could get my time back.. very sad...

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