Echo Boomers

2 out of 5 stars.

Echo Boomers tries to be a heist thriller. About a young college grad who has difficulty trying to get a job. Instead joins his group of friends who break into high class peoples home to steal there valuables and vandalized the property.

Plot tries to focus on the generation group of people. Which they feel like they are cheated in our society. So they try to get back at it by robbing peoples stuff. Dumb plot. The direction is predictable. The performances are tedious. And the film is quite forgettable.

This film was supposed to appeal to our masses. Lucky I think very different from others in my generation.

The movie as whole portrays a group of young adults who are struggling in society/financially and decide to rob houses to get by. The movie at first seems interesting but after awhile it gets kind of slow and boring. The cast (which has plenty of good actors) is left squandered in this with cheesy dialogue. The film also feels low budget and visuals weren't anything great.

Overall Just wasn't fan of this B-movie, the only type of people this appeases to is teenagers to young adults who find movies like this "rad". Most older adults won't enjoy this at all.

Awful direction, silly dialogue but the acting is world class laughable. Some fake ratings, hence score.

It's ironic that a movie that somewhat tries to champion the notion that western (and US in particular) society in the 2010's was cruel to millennials actually falls short on its own merits... which is something that happens to many millennials, in spite of their feelings of entitlement. The thing is... You can be rejected because you just can't cut it, not because you are a millennial or whatever. This was probably the most self-centred generation in modern western history.

Plus, this movie tries to have it both ways, as it tries to portray an objective view by using the "journalist writing a book" gimmick (which takes you away from the subjective view of each character and hence leads you to interpret this view as more "objective), but at the same time it slants the narrative towards a supposedly "social-justice" attitude from some of the protagonists. Well, this is all BS. The protagonists are not some modern day Robin Hoods. They are actually entitled spoiled brats and/or lazy wimps who just want their kicks and their money. Maybe this is yet another sign of the decadence of western civilization.

Surely, this is a nice production with a decent cast overall (with maybe the exception of Schwarzenegger Jr., though, because acting isn't his strongest suit), and competent execution all around. But this surely isn't a valuable contribution to cinema nor to culture as whole. And you won't be missing much if you skip it.

Well, idk how they managed to get Michael Shannon on this one but dear lord this was borderline insulting...my intelligence I mean.