a5c7b9f00b At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world. Max Peterson is a globe-trotting techno-whiz who installs security systems on computers. He receives an anonymous gift: a phone which sends messages that enable him to win at a casino. Max soon finds himself pursed by hit men, the casino&#39;s security chief, and a CIA operative. Who&#39;s sending Max messages? Previous recipients of similar windfalls have ended up dead. After a couple of close scrapes, Max realizes he&#39;s in danger, so he tries to find out the root of the conspiracy - which seems to have access to every security camera in the world - before he&#39;s the next victim. Why is this happening to him, and who can he trust? For the most part the technology in the movie is very real, Echelon does exist, but it&#39;s official primary function according to the feds is to look for keywords in emails, phone conversations, text messages, and other digital communications. However I doubt it has the capability to anticipate seemingly random events. In London, and Las Vegas, massive CCTV networks are able to identify and track individuals in a crowd. The FBI also has interests in installing CCTV networks all over the towns and cities of the U.S. in order to locate and apprehend fugitives. As to my review of the movie, It is yet another cookie cutter movie. Having seen Eagle Eye I&#39;d say Echelon Conspiracy puts it well to shame. Unlike other cookie cutter movies E.C. was notpredictablemost tend to be. There are not that many cyber suspense films I know of, and few still wrangle the topic of Echelon. The acting isn&#39;t very good, but it&#39;s not bad either the story was well thought out but could have done a bit better on building suspense. I would recommended this movie to suspense fans, and anyone who likes a good conspiracy. And that&#39;s not necessarily a bad thing. After all, let&#39;s not pretend Eagle eye was particularly original. It was essentially a warmed over version of Enemy Of The State which was probably based on some other movie I&#39;ve never seen. Basically what you&#39;ve got is you&#39;re super paranoid information state super computer run amok strategy here. And for the budget it actually works pretty well. The budget is far from shoe-string, but you&#39;re not going to see a national deficit&#39;s worth of special effects like you did in the two aforementioned films. Let&#39;s just all be happy this film proves that there is something that Michael Bay CAN&#39;T get his hands on (and more than like ruin…Friday the 13th,anyone?), shall we? <br/><br/>The performances are all fine if not somewhat forgettable. Ving Rames succeeded once again in annoying the crap out of me, but that&#39;s nothing new. Martin Sheen is an amazingly easy replacement for Jon Voigt (who played essentially the same character in Enemy Of The State). You know, the somewhat power mad head of any given 3 letter intelligence organization (CIA, FBI, FSB, KGB, CBS, etc.) who realizes the error of his ways after everything heads south. Well…maybe not so much for Sheen, but what do you expect? The guy takes the weirdest projects. In any event, Tamara Feldman does finethe amazingly hot but somewhat pointless love interest/double agent/tougher-than-she-looks chick. If I had one major complaint about the whole thing, it&#39;s got to be the simply massive suspension of disbelief required for all but the most hardcore of the tin foil hat crowd. While I too am concerned about the amount of surveillance used by the US government, I am not worried about being tracked by literally everything with a lens. I am well aware that not every single CCTV, traffic, bank, and security camera is accessible by anyone with an internet connection. That&#39;s why it&#39;s called CCTV…because it&#39;s CLOSED CIRCUIT. And since when do Russian hackers have technology that can get the job done better than a multi-billion dollar agency like the NSA? Whatever. It&#39;s still not a bad way to kill 100 minutes of your life. Could&#39;ve used a bigger budget, but it does fine with what it has. Now if I could just figure out who&#39;s dumb enough to do anything a text message tells them I&#39;ll be set. Unlike, say, "Eagle Eye," Echelon Conspiracy doesn't put enough conviction behind its stupidity. It's mostly just bland.
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