Stir of Echoes 4K 1999

David Koepp is a very talented screenwriter who has written quite a few movie plots that later became hits. He is truly one of the highest paid and most talented screenwriters in Hollywood. I recently came across David's second directorial project called 'Echoes of an Echo'. Despite the fact that to date I have watched quite a few movies on similar themes and referring to the premiere date of this movie, I didn't expect anything outstanding from it. But the movie unexpectedly managed to surprise me very much!

I still wonder how it could happen. Having watched a lot of mystical thrillers of the present, I have willy-nilly convinced myself that if modern thrillers do not surprise me with anything, then the movies of the previous decade are not surprising at all, as the new ones are mostly based on them. The intrigue in this movie from the very beginning seems very original for the genre and absolutely not hackneyed, although such a thing has been used in other films dozens of times. But Koepp, with a kind of care and diligence inherent only to him, bypasses all the existing stamps in this genre and gives the viewer a story that is a hundred times better than many modern mystical thrillers, in which the stamp about the ghost girl runs from one movie to another. Here there are ghosts too, but despite this, you will watch the whole movie with your mouth half-opened and waiting for the next episode, though not particularly frightening, but certainly making you nervous. The ending is also above all praise. I didn't expect such a thing, no matter how many hypotheses I made while watching it.

After this movie I began to respect Kevin Bacon, with whom I was familiar only from his supporting roles. Here he plays a hypnotized man who, after a hypnosis session, begins to see strange things. Things that no one else can see but him.

David Koepp is still a newcomer in terms of directing, but it is already evident that he feels very comfortable in the director's chair, shooting one quality thriller after another (Echoes of Echoes, Secret Window). In this movie, although he uses old, time-tested Hitchcockian techniques of suspense, he also uses his own directorial techniques. For example, the scene on the couch at the beginning of the movie, although it was later used in other movies, in this one it looked very unexpected and frightening.

Echoes of Echoes is a very high quality thriller, which is worth getting acquainted with, even if you have seen many other mystical thrillers up to this point. This movie, I'm sure can still surprise a lot of people. My review is just another appeal to people who have not seen it, but who love quality movies, still get acquainted with this movie product of Hollywood cinema.