Stir Of Echoes 2 – The Homecoming (Lionsgate/DVD-Video)
Picture:
C+ Sound: B- Extras: C- Feature: C-
When the
original Stir Of Echoes was
released, it was hoped it would be a big hit and if it were not for a smaller
company like Lionsgate pushing it as known back catalog, it would have faded as
it had at the box office back in 1999.
Here is the review for the film on Blu-ray:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/4319/Stir+Of+Echoes+(Blu-ray)
Now eight
years later comes a very belated, unnecessary sequel that wants to tie the Iraq
fiasco with the genre. Stir Of Echoes 2 – The Homecoming (stars
Rob Lowe as a soldier who comes home and finds that his post-dramatic stress
syndrome may also be mixed in with the supernatural. Almost insulting at times, the whole mess can
best be described as Deathdream-lite
(reviewed elsewhere on this site) with no point but to have Lowe wince often
and we are supposed to be impressed.
Writer/director
Ernie Barbarash is joust going through the numbers and formulas to get this one
made and it trivializes the Iraq conflict at worst, ends in a very long 89
minutes at best and should have never been made.
The 2.35
X 1 image is soft, has detail issues and is not shot very memorably by Director
of Photography Francois Dagenais. The
original looks ambitious by comparison in this regard. The Dolby Digital 5.1 is active, more so than
the Dolby 2.0 with Pro Logic surrounds, but is nothing special and jumps in the
sound are relied on to cover up script flaws.
Extras include deleted scenes, making of featurette and editor Mitchell
Lackie joining Barbarash on a mixed commentary.
This is
an echo to be ignored.
- Nicholas Sheffo
