chmueller I would like to have the smartphone this guy gets ... it is so beautiful. I came across this movie by coincidence while zapping through TV channels. Great idea, very entertaining and an unexpected end. After reading many of those reviews here - "this is a copy of Eagles Eye" - I thought, great, another movie like this, I must see it. But honestly, I could not watch "Eagles Eye" to the end. It was too boring. So ... no. Both movies are based on a similar idea (like other movies: Colossus, I Robot, The Matrix or even Tron), but that's it. Maybe people who have watched "Eagles Eye" before and loved this movie will not like the "Echelon Conspiracy", I don't know. It is not a deadly serious movie, though. Sometimes a little irony shows and sometimes it made me smile. To me, "Echelon Conspiracy" is one of those few movies I can watch more than one time and enjoy those small details I discover.

bowmanblue If you've seen any modern spy movie (with a budget/A-list actor fronting the film) or just any of the 'Bourne' films then you've basically seen a better version of 'Echelon Conspiracy.' It's not a bad film, just not quite as good as the ones it was based on. It has a decent enough cast to elevate it above most of the B-movie thrillers, but it's nothing we haven't seen before, i.e. it's a 'chase movie.' Shane West plays... whoever is going to be chased by... whichever shady agency is after him. Therefore, he gets chased from one European city to the next, narrowly escaping each time. Until such time as he can bring the perpetrator to justice.The first half doesn't contain an awful lot of chasing and, in my opinion, it's actually better for it. There's an air of mystery about it where you don't know what's going to happen and it is quite tense in places. However, the second half is where the action/chases take place and so it feels a bit like we've seen it all before.If you're in the mood for a Bourne clone of a movie then you could do worse than this.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

suparn gupta Imagine a movie where FBI chief doesn't know what is Authorize BIOS? I mean come on! And how do you build a software junk without getting it approved by the senate first? And how in the world you access street cameras in Moscow without getting help from Russian Govt. The movie is full of flaws including the climax where the lead actor starts talking to the computer!! I mean a moment ago, he cannot access the computer, next minute, he is doing a Skype call with it. He is shown as a Computer Security Guy, and doesn't even know how to connect a blue tooth wireless headset to his phone! In which century are you making this movie!! To all of those who contributed to the script-> Watch a couple of CIA movies like Bourne series, etc. You ll know how tech stuff works. And at least what kind of intellect you need to show in FBI agents!

garyvanhorn Max Peterson (Shane West) is your typical I.T. guy who specializes in bios password protection. Max receives a mysterious phone in the mail that gives him all kinds of useful information via text messages from an unknown source. He is warned not to board a plane that later crashes, is given a hot tip involving the stock market, as well as the winning slot machines at a high end casino. He gets arrested by the FBI because they have been tracking similar cases and all the phone recipients have ended up dead and the FBI and the NSA think there is a national security threat behind the mysterious text messages.For about half he movie it is very watchable and entertaining, when it is revealed that the text messages are coming from a multi-billion dollar U.S. government super computer that has gone bonkers, the movie takes a major dive into unable-to-continue-to-suspend-disbelief-land. The computer, called Echelon, is all knowing and is tapped into every computer system, traffic light, security camera, and phone in the world. The movie basically turns into a low-budget version of the garbage film Eagle Eye, or a cheap knock off of the classic War Games, depending on how badly you want to savage the film.The acting isn't terrible, but it's not stellar by any stretch of the imagination. The action is rather lame and could have been left out almost entirely without hurting the film, particularly the poorly shot car chase scene. There is also a meaningless and half-assed, tacked-on love story that could have easily been dropped without anyone noticing. Oh, and in the end the U.S. government turns out to be bad but the freedom loving ex-communists in the Kremlin turn out to be the saviors of humanity. Who would have known the Russian bear was so cuddly? The extreme stupidity of the final scene cost the film 1/2 star by itself.