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Summary: Very Entertaining and scary!
Review: This has to be one of the best thriller movies I have ever seen. The plot was very original and some of the scenes were very startling. The producer, director and cast should all be congradulated for their excellent effort to produce one HELL OF A GOOD MOVIE!
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Summary: Frightening...
Review: This was one heck of a good movie! I saw the Sixth Sense first and thought it was great, but Stir of Echoes was equally as good. The best thing about Stir of Echoes was that it scared me more than the Sixth Sense! I admit that I had a difficult time getting to sleep after this was over. The climax of the movie (when kevin Bacon finds what he was looking for) will stay with you forever - I'm not kidding! If you like thrillers, you will love this!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I was a big fan of Sixth Sense, ahd it on DVD, had seen it in the theaters. I'd always liked Kevin Bacon but thought Stir looked bad. I later started a subscription to Fangoria and saw quite a few mentions of it, including some saying it was better than Sixth Sense! I found that must mean it was truly good and was enarly stopped from getting it at 15 from Wal-Mart. Luckily I did get it when my mother came into the store. It was truly a scary movie, the scares more scary than the shockingness of Sixth Sense. The acting was excellent, the plot was as well. HIGHLY reccomended
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Summary: A Great suspense thriller!
Review: Stir of Echoes has often been compared to The Sixth Sense, although they are both good i feel that Stir... is better. Bacon is a great actor, and Koepp is a great screenwriter, making his debut as director, and doing a great job of it. The ensemble cast is good, and the story sweeps the movies along at a grueling, non-stop, thrill ride pace. Although it is not the pace of an action movie, it is great! This film, unlike The Sixth Sense can be watched over and over again, while the Sixth Sense gets a little boring. The end is great, not as big a twist as The Sixth Sense, but it is still great!
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Summary: Wow! Better than Sixth Sense!
Review: This might very well have been the movie of the year. It's one that I skipped over in the theaters, but picked up at the video store on a night where I wanted something new. What I got didn't disappoint in the least!Kevin Bacon portrays a normal, hard-working, middle class man who loves his family. After a freak encounter he is left with an uncanny ability to see into the past/future and communicate somewhat with the after-life. The cast is great and all of the characters are enveloping and well played. The plot of this movie is much more involved than Sixth Sense and easier to follow along with... you know what you're looking for here! This movie may lack the "blockbuster" surprise ending of Sixth Sense, but it still delivers. I highly suggest anyone looking for a good movie that delivers a bit of fear and a lot of intrigue to pick this one up.
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Summary: Inane adaptation of a good book
Review: I was rather looking forward to this film, having read the book and enjoying it very much, as well as having liked David Koepp's previous directorial effort, The Trigger Effect. Imagine my shock, when by the halfway point of the movie, I wanted nothing more than for the film to just be over. The film starts out well enough. It makes a few changes here and there, such as the main character being a much more blue collar type person and the hypnotist being a woman rather than a man. No problems there. The problems come in when the film goes on and there is almost nothing to develop the supporting characters of the neighbors. It gets even worse when it decides to throw cheap shock gimmicks at the audience rather than use the subtle scares Matheson imbued his novel with. (The best examples of the cheap shocks include the oft-repeated shot of the breaking fingernail, as well as the laughable vision of the boy shooting himself and then spreading the blood over his face.) Probably the lowest point of the film is when Koepp decides to introduce the character of the psychic police officer, who does nothing more than give us information that we've already figured out on our own. (And if you hadn't figured it out by that point, then you surely weren't paying attention to all the clues the director bashed you over the head with.) By the end, due to the lack of supporting character development, I had no real concern over which neighbors did what to whom, nor did I feel the shock I'm sure I was supposed to have felt. Instead, I was just glad when the screen darkened and the credits rolled. I will forever be mystified as to why this film received so many good reviews. I just think of it as further evidence of how David Koepp's screenplays in which he adapts pre-existing material almost always turn out bad. (The Lost World, The Shadow, Mission: Impossible... You do the math!)
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Summary: very scary and very freaky movie!!
Review: this movie is very intense. it is SO much better than 'sixth sense'. kevin bacon is very believable playing a man who cant understand his fate but dealing with the situations at hand. the ghosts are freaky, the plot captivating, and the movie overall is simply awesome. I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!
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Summary: Not quite as good as "The Sixth Sense" --- but still good!
Review: Like "The Sixth Sense," there's a little kid in this film who can see dead people --- only he's not particularly afraid. And even though the two movies are not that alike, this one has some truly excellent scary scenes that rank right up there! I don't want to spoil any of the good parts, so suffice to say this is a really good movie that's well-worth watching! Check it out!
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Summary: Enjoyable, but with loose ends
Review: I kept putting off renting this DVD, but my curiosity was finally piqued by the constant comparisons to 6th Sense. I felt 6th was the better film by far, but still thoroughly enjoyed this film. A couple things bothered me though: I didn't like the lack of communication between the husband and wife. She converses with Neil, the black cop, in the cemetery (where was Scatman Cruthers?), investigates on her own, saying her husband would "never understand" - yet that was precisely what he had been trying to do, so her failure to pass Neil's card on rang false. The tearing up of the backyard bugged me the same way it did in Close Encounters when he piles the dirt in the house to recreate Devil's Tower. . . I mean, the murder was ONLY 6 months prior . . wouldn't freshly dug dirt be a bit obvious? (the same with the basement floor). In addition, like one other reviewer stated, I've never seen areas of Chicago that consisted of young families and people who acted like they lived on a commune . . .Looked like fun though. . . I also agree with a prior reviewer that the DVD was lacking in features, especially foreign language selections or subtitles. . . there's really no reason for that anymore.
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Summary: Not as good as "Sixth Sense" --- but still very good!
Review: I was told by a friend that this movie was just as good as "The Sixth Sense," so I rented it. It wasn't, but that doesn't mean it's not a good film! Some parts were excellent! Like "Sixth Sense" you've got a little kid who can see dead people, but this little kid isn't scared. His dad, on the other hand (played by Kevin Bacon) also acquires this ability --- by accident, after being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, who tells him under hynosis to keep "an open mind," not realizing that this inadvertently OPENS HIS MIND in a way neither of them expected! There are some truly scary scenes in this one, like when the babysitter downstairs is listening to the sleeping little kid on the baby-monitor, and she hears him wake up and start whispering to an unknown somebody upstairs in his room! And there were several more scenes just as chilling! This isn't a slasher film, but it's scary none-the-less!
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