Whilst the era of straight to video B-movie action may be a distant memory, the spirit lives on in independent productions that can be considered labors of love in their efforts to get completed. “Echo 8”, an Australian based martial arts/action piece put together with a micro budget during a nationwide pandemic, is one such example.. In such circumstances a tremendous achievement. The concept of an assassin regaining memories and their own conscience is a fertile one and has been a popular mainstay of action cinema across the decades. How then does this effort compare?
Echo 8 (Maria Tran) and Delta 1 (David Vuong) are assassins under the watch of Agenda 5 (Takeshi Hara). Deemed to be the most efficient of the Zodiac organizations teams, they are assigned one job after another unit messes up a straightforward hit. The target is Hanh (Gabrielle Chan) a mother who is pressuring the local authorities to reopen 216 cold cases.
Echo 8 (Maria Tran) and Delta 1 (David Vuong) are assassins under the watch of Agenda 5 (Takeshi Hara). Deemed to be the most efficient of the Zodiac organizations teams, they are assigned one job after another unit messes up a straightforward hit. The target is Hanh (Gabrielle Chan) a mother who is pressuring the local authorities to reopen 216 cold cases.
- 1/8/2023
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
Maria Trần ready for action in ‘Echo 8’.
Actress, filmmaker, martial artist and fight coordinator Maria Trần had long wanted to direct a film but nobody asked her, so she decided to self-fund, co-produce, direct and star in Echo 8.
In the midst of a hectic 11-day shoot in Sydney’s Western suburbs, she is playing a highly trained assassin in the psychological thriller scripted by her sister Elizabeth H. Vu.
Her character code-named Echo 8 grew up in a dysfunctional family, runs away, gets kidnapped and is then raised in the underworld as an assassin. The twist: She has no memory of her previous life.
Takashi Hara plays Agent 5, Echo 8’s boss and mentor, with David Vuong as fellow agent Delta 1, Mike Leeder as her nemesis Z12 and Gabby Chan as Hanh. The DOPs are Adam McPhilbin and Nancy Trieu.
It’s the first feature from Phoenix Eye Film & Media Production,...
Actress, filmmaker, martial artist and fight coordinator Maria Trần had long wanted to direct a film but nobody asked her, so she decided to self-fund, co-produce, direct and star in Echo 8.
In the midst of a hectic 11-day shoot in Sydney’s Western suburbs, she is playing a highly trained assassin in the psychological thriller scripted by her sister Elizabeth H. Vu.
Her character code-named Echo 8 grew up in a dysfunctional family, runs away, gets kidnapped and is then raised in the underworld as an assassin. The twist: She has no memory of her previous life.
Takashi Hara plays Agent 5, Echo 8’s boss and mentor, with David Vuong as fellow agent Delta 1, Mike Leeder as her nemesis Z12 and Gabby Chan as Hanh. The DOPs are Adam McPhilbin and Nancy Trieu.
It’s the first feature from Phoenix Eye Film & Media Production,...
- 1/21/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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