Echo Boomers

Not a bad movie. This is a great example of a movie where having a veteran actor who everyone knows makes a big difference -- I wouldn't have watched or even liked this is Michael Shannon wasn't in it.

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 movie was rated a 6 for the HD quality of the movie especially low budget type B production. It had a good plot and some factual basis for the story line. However, the acting was only acceptable, not good or great perhaps better story boarding or directing might have helped.It had draw power with the likes of Michael Shannon and (fans of) Lesley Ann Warren. The story line was not fluid enough to make a sort of glued to your seat watching a thriller. If the movie was re-edited and was more fluid, I would give it higher ratings. Again, I must commend the people who did the camera work. If you have the time watch it to understand how many people now feel and try to live a life of entitlement-this was accomplished in the movie.

Poorly written and haphazardly directed dreck. Patrick Schwarzenegger and Michael Shannon are passable but the other actors are awful. Slowly paced and boring, its 94 minutes seemed like 940. Avoid.

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.