Echelon Conspiracy (2009)

Director: Greg Marcks

Cast: Shane West as Max Peterson, Edward Burns as John Reed, Ving Rhames as Agent Dave Grant, Jonathan Pryce as Mueller, Tamara Feldman as Kamila, Yuriy Kutsenko as Russian General, Sergey Gubanov as Yuri Malanin, Martin Sheen as Raymond Burke, Ilan Goodman as Dennis, Todd Jensen as Agent Fletcher, Steven Elder as Charles, Sandra De Sousa as Female Casino Tech, Greg Donaldson as Casino Tech, Andrea Enright as NSA Tech #2, Trevor White as Paul Spencer

No, this was not a great movie, action movies rarely are, but it was
certainly better than Eagle Eye.

Common complaints:

-"The acting sucked": Who the hell cares? It's an action movie! At
least the characters were interesting and developed. At least the love
interest was more than just a pretty girl along for the ride.

-"The plot was confusing and I couldn't figure out if they were good or
bad guys": OMG! You are the stupidest idiot alive! You're the reason
they dumbed down MI2. You are never aloud to watch a suspense movie
again. If you said that the plot had too many detours, holes, or didn't
explain itself right, I'm sorry, but you obviously just couldn't follow
it. It all fit together in a neat little package.

-"The plot was too predictable": You also seem to be the folks that
complain that the movie copied Eagle Eye. Do you really think that
Eagle Eye had a good plot? =Jump through hoops or I'll kill you! By the
way, I need your face or I'm blowing up a diamond.= That's not a plot!
That's a really long car chase with gratuitous special effects. The
plot only seems predictable because you've heard the story before.
Standing alone it was interesting and well executed. They went about it
far better than Eagle Eye here too. How long am I expected to listen to
Shia LaBeouf whine that he doesn't want to play along!? Phone lady can
kill you dude! Do what she says! At least Echelon was a smarter
computer than Eagle Eye and bribed you first.

-"The end was cliché": Yeah alright you got me there. But once
again...ACTION MOVIE! There was limited computer cliché amidst awesome
gun fight and car explosion! Then he walks away with the girl...DUH!
Complain about this and you complain about 99% of action suspense
movies.

-"Unbelievable suspension of reality regarding computer technology":
Uh...yeah. If you can't make this leap then you don't have any business
watching a movie with "conspiracy" in the title. What do you want? A
prologue that says "It must be understood that the computer is
omniscient"? If you don't get the reference then you're not aloud to
review movies anymore.