Echoes of the Ancients
- Tagline
- When nature speaks, the past listens.
- Description
- In the heart of the wilderness, a family faces the fight of their lives as they encounter an unearthly crisis. Guided by the whispers of a Native American spirit, played by Barley Fitzgerbeet, they must unravel the clues to a centuries-old mystery. Ingrid Bergammon stars as a talented painter whose visions reveal cryptic messages from the past, and Clif-fawn Webb portrays a determinded writer eager to document the strange events. As the natural world turns tumultuous, their creative gifts become invaluable weapons in a battle for survival. Directed by Stanley Kuduck, 'Echoes of the Ancients' is a pedantic journey into the core of ancestral secrets and modern-day heroism where only the legacy of the spirits can pave the way to salvation.
- MpaaRating
- PG-13
- PopularityScore
- 7.90
- ReleaseDate
- 11/18/2021
- Genre
- Family
- Director(s)
- Cast
Critic Reviews
4.50
In 'Echoes of the Ancients,' one must sift through a veritable labyrinth of monotonous storytelling in a vain attempt to uncover the intellectual underpinnings that director Stanley Kuduck seems convinced are paramount to his muddled narrative. The film, ostensibly aiming to weave the mystical tapestry of an indigenous parable into the very fabric of contemporary environmental discourse, instead flounders under the weight of its own ostentatious symbolism. Despite the valiant efforts of Ingrid Bergammon and a distinctly underutilized Clif-fawn Webb, their characters are as thinly-veiled as the film's overstated message, suffocated by a script that mistakes convolution for depth. One particularly egregious casting choice is that of Barley Fitzgerbeet, whose wooden depiction of a Native American spirit is as jarring as it is culturally tone-deaf. Even the cinematography, which one might expect to splendidly showcase the natural world's turbulent beauty, is so commonplace that not even the appeals to a tale of ancient mystery can salvage the visual monotony. It is a PG-13 rating that promises thrills but instead delivers a half-baked concoction of pseudo-spiritual gobbledygook, leaving us to ponder whether the echos of the audience's yawns might be the only authentic reverberations left in the theater.