Film Review – Echo Boomers

Co-writer/director Seth Savoy makes his feature-length directorial debut with “Echo Boomers,” setting out to inspect the state of the millennial nation with this tale of bad deeds orchestrated by frustrated characters. The production tries to go topical with the plight of the wandering twentysomething, exploring how workplace denial and the weight of debt transform purity of intent into bad deeds done in the name of entitlement. There’s probably a documentary to be made about the subject, or even a dramatic undertaking with a real sensitivity to the ways things are for an entire generation. Unfortunately, Savoy chooses to make a valentine to Gen Y ingenuity with “Echo Boomers,” and he uses the hoariest of gangster cinema cliches to piece it together. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com