Director : Dave Green
Screenplay : Henry Gayden
Cinematography : Maxime Alexandre
Running time : 89 minutes
Country : United States
'Earth to Echo' offers a pleasant little coming of age tale about a bunch of adolescents, who encounter an extraterrestrial. The film was originally developed and produced by Walt Disney Pictures, who eventually sold the distribution rights to Relativity Media, which released the completed film in theaters on July 2, 2014. The film has a similar plot to the 1982 science fiction film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial though it is not a direct remake. The movie is shot in found footage format.
A trio of junior high school boys have grown up together in a suburban Nevada development. Tuck is a techno whiz. He has mounted a series of ubiquitous cameras to record everything that happens. Tuck even has rigged his eyeglasses with a mini-cam, so he can surreptitiously record people without their knowledge. Alex is a foster child, who has apparently never been adopted. The group is rounded out by Munch, a cherubic kid, who manifests a protective attitude towards his ditzy divorcee mom.
The long-time buddies are spending their last days together. The town is supposedly being torn down to accommodate the construction of a new expanded highway. The indigenous populace is about to be displaced. The departure drama is eclipsed by a techno-mystery. Cell phones begin to abruptly display a strange image.Eager to solve what is going on, the boys bike into the desert one night without their parents’ knowledge.
There, next to a transformer, they discover an odd-looking cylinder. Inside it, a diminutive, otherworldly space creature is cowering with fear. The film suffers from a poorly constructed alien. Unlike the cuddly, eponymous entity in E.T., here the creature is an obvious animation. What saves the film from ignominy are the naturalistic performances of its juvenile actors. They all prove likable.
Movie Website: http://www.callhimecho.com
Courtesy : Nathan Lerner
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