Thursday, September 22, 2011
Edohotep
**full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by MTI Home Video.
Director: Brian Feeney.
Writers: Brian Feeney and John Ross.
Cast: Alisha Seaton, Jeannie Bolet and Melissa Lee.
Just what is The Echo Game? When a female killer is on the loose, looking for people formerly involved in The Echo Project, a secret experiment that tests children for psychic ability, the only thing she has to gain is their power.
Audiences might expect Anne Cassavettes (Judy Clement) to be the star. She does start off the film with a bang, and despite being a simple comic book style villain, her importance sets the stage for the rest of the film. This character comes through like an evil version of Professor X from the "X-Men." She wants to absorb the abilities of other telekinetically talented youths. She will do anything to achieve this.
The reason why is not fully explained and while Clement does a great job in being cruel, there is no explanation to why she is running around like a mad killer. She doesn’t reveal her motives, but the other characters involved in stopping her do, and they are only guessing. Some more information from the devil's own mouth would have helped flesh out the Cassavettes character.
After the bloody intro, this film changes gear to look at the happy life of a lesbian couple raising a young girl, Sarah (Melissa Lee). They don’t even know just how psychically gifted she is. To protect her from certain cronies requires more than themselves. They enlist the help of a cop just to find out what is going on, and that part of the narrative comes through as dull.
Cassavettes is apparently one step ahead of everything they do, and that is intriguing. When the FBI has been nibbing at her toes for some time, some audiences might want to know how she manages to stay hidden. She is not a powerful mind reader just yet, but that is the only plausible reason.
This movie is great when audiences have to stop and think now the narrative is piecing itself together. But when the acting is uneven, to find that one pea in the pod in this film to keep going really falls on the actions of Cassavettes. All the good girls try to do is to look pretty for the camera, and that is hardly sexy.
Overall: 6 out of 10.
*this title releases on DVD Sept. 27th.
More on the film at MTI Home Video:
The Echo Game at MTI Home Video
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