While on a
business trip in Russia, young computer technician Max Peterson (West)
receives a high-tech cell phone in the mail that dispenses advice via
anonymous text messages. After initially writing the phone off as a
promotional gift from the hotel, Peterson is saved from boarding a
doomed airplane thanks to the warnings of the inexplicably omniscient
device, and so he’s not entirely reluctant to try out its suggestions
at a local casino. Naturally, this attracts the uneasy attentions of
the casino’s security chief (Ed Burns), a burly FBI agent (Ving
Rhames), the head of the NSA (Martin Sheen), and a beautiful,
mysterious woman. Soon enough, the phone starts making death threats to
Peterson and a sniper appears on the roof across from his hotel room.
Rather than the over-the-top action scenarios of EAGLE EYE, its closest
contemporary, ECHELON CONSPIRACY grounds most of its tension in
behind-closed-doors plausibility.
Genre: Action | Mystery | Thriller
IMDB rating: 6.2/10 (194 votes)
Directed by: Greg Marcks
Starring:Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Yuriy Kutsenko