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  • 2015
  • R
  • ARC Entertainment (II)
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • ARC Entertainment (II)
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary In post-Civil War Texas, two neighboring families are grieving tragic losses while they struggle to survive in this rural drama. The cattle-ranching McCluskeys have lost both a son and their entire herd to the war. The Rileys, mourning the loss of wife and mother Mary to illness, eke out a living trapping animals and selling their pelts....

Directed By: Kane Senes

Written By: John Chriss, Kane Senes

  • 2015
  • R
  • ARC Entertainment (II)
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2015
  • R
  • ARC Entertainment (II)
  • 1 h 40 m

Echoes of War

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
41
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary In post-Civil War Texas, two neighboring families are grieving tragic losses while they struggle to survive in this rural drama. The cattle-ranching McCluskeys have lost both a son and their entire herd to the war. The Rileys, mourning the loss of wife and mother Mary to illness, eke out a living trapping animals and selling their pelts....

Directed By: Kane Senes

Written By: John Chriss, Kane Senes

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
41
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50% Mixed
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50% Negative
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60
May 14, 2015
While all the naturalistic overtones might suggest faith-based Terrence Malick, those committed performances keep the film involving, however recognizably those echoes might resonate.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
60
May 14, 2015
The scriptwriters, Kane Senes (who also directed) and John Chriss, keep the family secrets too bottled up, but the actors, who include William Forsythe as the McCluskey patriarch, play it with dark vigor.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
50
May 13, 2015
Most of Echoes Of War amounts to Hints Of Aggression, with the film struggling to find enough incident to reach feature length.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
38
May 15, 2015
I could not see it as anything more than a giant bore that presents viewers with the most familiar plot devices imaginable but fails to present them in a way that makes them worth sitting through once again.
By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW
38
May 12, 2015
Echoes of War needs prettier visuals and bigger ideas, because the dialogue is too formulaic and the violence to come is entirely too predictable to hold our interest for 100 minutes.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
May 12, 2015
However you view the western in American filmmaking — as a moth-eaten relic or an eternal form to be resurrected every few years — there's something stale about Kane Senes's tepid historical drama Echoes of War, which utilizes the genre's symbols without delivering on its potential for moral or narrative satisfaction.
By Abby Garnett FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.4
33% Positive
3 Ratings
44% Mixed
4 Ratings
22% Negative
2 Ratings

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.4
33% Positive
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44% Mixed
4 Ratings
22% Negative
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Production Company American Film Productions, Provenance Pictures, Country Club, Movie Trailer House
Release Date May 15, 2015
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
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Tagline Home from battle...still fighting
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Awards

Dallas International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Diego Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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