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Echelon Conspiracy

PG-13 Released Feb 20, 2009 1h 46m Action Mystery & Thriller List
8% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 31% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings
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Joel Brown Boston Globe Combines a righteous message about out-of-control government surveillance with the old computer-gone-haywire plot to make - well, not very much, actually. Rated: 1/4 Nov 24, 2011 Full Review Adam Keleman Slant Magazine Simply a case of we've-seen-this-before-and-better (at least Sandra Bullock's The Net had camp value), Conspiracy flimsily masquerades as a ticking bomb but is ultimately sans heart-pounding jolts. Rated: .5/4 Mar 13, 2009 Full Review Scott Tobias AV Club A by-the-numbers international thriller in the Bourne vein. Rated: C- Mar 2, 2009 Full Review Anton Bitel Projected Figures Like any good conspiracy theorist, MacBride rewrites the cosmos, forcing us either to buy the particular reality that he's peddling, or to risk being cast as collusive shills or sacrificial 'sheeples' Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Jamie Gillies Apollo Guide In the right hands, this premise might a good movie make -- a fable like Aladdin's lamp updated for the iPhone era. This convoluted and half-baked conspiracy thriller does not. Rated: 40/100 Sep 28, 2009 Full Review Jules Brenner Cinema Signals When the only elements that could be called professional are the photography and the poster art, you can consider this a movie only the producer's mother could love. Rated: 1.5/5 Jul 15, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Liam D It tries to be a new kind of Techno conspiracy Thriller but it falls into cliché city but it isn't awful Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/19/22 Full Review Audience Member In my opinion, it's very good and thrilling regardless of the negative reviews and rates of others. Above all, the movie is interesting. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Didn't love the intro scenes, main actor wasn't very good, and overall not the slickest of productions, but loved the topics discussed. 10 years after it was made, it look very ahead of its time, considering how everyone is happily installing in-home surveillance devices with artificial intelligence, like 'nest cameras', amazon echo, google home, etc. . (this was made in 2009) Could end up one of those movies that finds an audience decades after it gets made. Also find it interesting that 'eagle eye' came out at almost the exact same time. Virtually identical plot with a lot more publicity, with all the real-life issues removed. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Supercilious spyware. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Echelon Conspiracy seems like a made for television movie that was accidentally released to theaters. Greg Marcks must be a Will Smith fan to make a movie that is the average of two Smith flicks: Enemy of the State and I, Robot. Echelon Conspiracy offers nothing new and blandly imitates its successful predecessors. And my goodness, who was in charge of casting? Shane West is too weak of a lead actor and Martin Sheen is too strong of a supporting actor for this film to feel properly balanced; it's like watching a white belt fight a black belt. There was a lot of potential here, but its unrealized and the movie is ultimately disappointing. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Another "tech heavy" movie written for mouth-breathers and eight year olds. Borrowing bits from Enemy of the State, Hackers, The Net, Eagle Eye, and a slew of others, this film doesn't do any of them justice. At the end of its hour and a half run you're left with nothing but the bitter taste of anti-tech and anti-government propaganda. Even the denouement falls hilariously flat with a resolution you've already seen in a hundred other movies. This pile of crap would be found right at home at 3am on the Lifetime Channel with it's terrible early 90s dialogue and ill-researched jargon taken right from some producer's Minecraft-playing child, if it weren't for the grating dubstep soundtrack and generic tension building "professional" score accompanying the entire mess. Skip it and you'll have nothing to feel bad about. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Mysterious phone messages prompt the deadly targeting of a young American engineer.
Director
Greg Marcks
Producer
Alexander Leyviman, Steve Richards
Screenwriter
Kevin Alyn Elders, Michael Nitsberg
Distributor
After Dark Films
Production Co
Dark Castle Entertainment
Rating
PG-13 (Sequences of Intense Action|Brief Language|Sequences of Intense Violence|Some Sexuality)
Genre
Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 20, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 6, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$500.2K
Runtime
1h 46m
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