Stir of Echoes, (Koepp, 1999)
Kevin Bacon meets The Sixth Sense, has a liaison with The Gift and grazes past Minority Report. Unfortunately Stir of Echoes isn’t as good as any of those films.
When supernatural skeptic Kevin Bacon is hypnotised he gains Shining-like powers and becomes a crime fighter… sort of. It is after the ghost of a local missing girl starts haunting his dreams that Bacon decides enough is enough: nobody interrupts his sleep and gets away with it! Hell bent on solving this case Bacon digs up his entire house to find, surprise surprise, the missing girl’s body. This however, can hardly be considered a spoiler it is so heavily signposted. Even the who-done-it aspect didn’t exactly need Sherlock Holmes on the case.
The film spends far too long pretending it has a closely kept secret and not long enough developing the characters that the secret concerns. The performances get the job done, but are nothing to write home about and I wish I could say differently about every other aspect of this film, but I really can’t; Stir of Echoes is painfully mediocre and you would do better to rewatch any of the other films I have mentioned.
