Echelon Conspiracy (2009) Movie review

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A computer engineer Max Peterson (Shane West) who is on an assignment in Thailand, receives a package that contains yet unreleased cell phone from an unknown person.

He starts getting text messages from an unknown source. First message tells him to stay in Bangkok for an extra night and book another flight. The plane he was supposed to fly out in crashes and everyone on board dies.

Second text message tells him to buy stock shares for a particular company which he ignores and then watching the news 3 days later he sees that those company shares prices went up 3 times. This is when Max realizes the importance of those messages.

After that the next message tells him to fly out to Prague (Czech Republic) where he wins 3 million Euros in a casino thanks to those messages.

Here the movie action begins and the story unfolds when FBI agent Grant (Ving Rhames) and casino security manager Reed (Edward Burns) get involved.

Whilst trying to discover who the sender of those text messages is they discover that all the messages come from a supercomputer designed by NSA (National Security Agency) called Echelon, which apparently can control the whole world, email, messages, security cameras etc.

NSA director Burke (Martin Sheen) is heading the search for a source of those messages and as it turns out their super computer is so sophisticated and intelligent that it has decided to play it's own game and developed its own mind about what is good and what is bad.

Not to reveal any more about this movie all I can say is that Echelon Conspiracy is one of those movies where they make a cool movie trailer with all the action packed into a 30 seconds clip and you think WOW :) what a cool movie. Then you go out and see it in the cinema and you feel cheated.

Echelon Conspiracy actors: Martin Sheen's acting is rubbish in this movie.
Ving Rhames hmmm that guy never changes, can he act at all? Shane West's acting was quite good considering the movie story line.

Movie review written by: Nenad Rajsic