Echelon Conspiracy

PG-13

Released Feb 20, 2009

1 hr. 46 min.

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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8%

13 Reviews

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31%

250,000+ Ratings

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Mysterious phone messages prompt the deadly targeting of a young American engineer.

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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

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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

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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

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Supercilious spyware.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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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

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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

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Greg Marcks

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Shane West

Max Peterson

Edward Burns

John Reed

Ving Rhames

Agent Dave Grant

Yuriy Kutsenko

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Sergey Gubanov

Yuri Malanin

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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

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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

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

A by-the-numbers international thriller in the Bourne vein.

Rated: C-

Mar 2, 2009

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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

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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

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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

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Synopsis

Mysterious phone messages prompt the deadly targeting of a young American engineer.

Director: Greg Marcks
Executive Producer: Charles V. Bender, Navid McIlhargey
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

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