Echelon Conspiracy: Critic Reviews

Echelon Conspiracy is a more evocative title than a movie this stupid deserves.

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.

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.

The movie isn't so much outright bad as it is simply flat and routine.

Of all the pejorative words that could be used to describe this film, perhaps the most apt is amateurish.

The biggest mystery is how this high-tech whodunit-gone-awry got a theatrical release and didn't go directly to dvd.

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

Presumably it was the fact that the DVD release schedule for the week was already filled that explains the escape of this picture to theatres--it really belongs on a video store shelf or a late-night slot on a non-premium cable network.

Echelon Conspiracy is a pale imitation of Eagle Eye, not exactly a good movie to begin with.

This latest take on Bush-era paranoia and cell phone alarm might arrive in theaters somewhat dramatically moldy and short-sheeted in the budget department, yet it's actually a more rewarding sit than Eagle Eye if viewed with minimal attention paid