Echoes of War (2015)

★ 6.0 1h 40m IMDb

A Civil War veteran returns home to the quiet countryside, only to find himself embroiled in a conflict between his family and the brutish cattle rancher harassing them.

Echoes of War

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James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale as Wade Age 47 · New York City, New York, USA James Badge Dale  (born May 1, 1978) is an American actor who starred in the AMC drama series Rubicon. He is most famous for his role of Chase Edmunds in the third season of 24 and Robert Leckie in th...
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry as Seamus Riley Age 47 · Huntington Beach, California, USA Ethan Embry (born Ethan Philan Randall; June 13, 1978) is an American film and television actor..
William Forsythe
William Forsythe as Randolph McCluskey Age 70 · Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, USA William Forsythe (born June 7, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of tough-guy, criminal characters, and has starred in films such as American Me (1992), Raising Arizona (1...
Rhys Wakefield
Rhys Wakefield as Marcus McCluskey Age 37 · Cairns, Queensland, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988) is an Australian actor. He is best known for portraying Lucas Holden in the long-running TV series Home and Away, portr...
Maika Monroe
Maika Monroe as Abigail Riley Age 32 · Santa Barbara, California, USA Maika Monroe (born Dillon Monroe Buckley; born May 29, 1993) is an American actress. She made her film debut with the drama At Any Price (2012) and led the thriller film The Guest and the horror film ...
Beth Broderick
Beth Broderick as Doris McCluskey Age 67 · Falmouth, Kentucky, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elizabeth Alice "Beth" Broderick (born February 24, 1959) is an American actress and director famous for her portrayal of the character Aunt Zelda in the televi...

Audience Reviews

Wuchak 8/10 Sep 22, 2018
_**Civil War flick about what happens when you bring the war back home with you**_

An ex-Confederate soldier (James Badge Dale) shows up at his dead sister’s rural abode in central Texas where he butts heads with his peaceable brother-in-law (Ethan Embry) and stands up to the corruption of a neighboring patriarch (William Forsythe) and his retarded son. Meanwhile the niece (Maika Monroe) is having secret meetings with the cowardly boy of the other family (Rhys Wakefield).

“Echoes of War” (2015) is a realistic post-Civil War Western that shows what happens when an ex-soldier brings the war back with him. It’s cut from the same cloth as “Pharaoh's Army” (1995) and “Sommersby” (1993). “Ride with the Devil” (1999) and “Cold Mountain” also come to mind. It’s a slow-build rural drama with feud-ish Hatfield & McCoy elements, but you can bank on blazing confrontations in the final act.

James Badge Dale is captivating in the central figure, pretty much on the level of Brando (seriously). Meanwhile Maika is entrancingly fair. Like “Pharaoh’s Army” everything smacks of real life. While the movie’s no doubt low-budget, it doesn’t seem like it at all. The filmmaking is thoroughly professional with a pleasing sense of aesthetics. The negative 1-Star shill reviews are absurd; pay no mind to them (the producers must’ve ticked off the catering service). There’s a brief sex scene, but it goes with the realism of the picture; it’s not raunchy or sleazy at all, just realistic and mature. It’s life… and death.

The film runs 1 hour, 44 minutes and was probably shot in Austin & Bastrop, Texas.

GRADE: A-/B+

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