Echelon Conspiracy

Echelon Conspiracy formerly titled The Gift is a 2009 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Greg Marcks and starring Shane West, Edward Burns, and Ving Rhames.

To further his newfound career in gambling, Max enlists the aid of a Russian cabbieapparent egadget enthusiast, Yuri Sergey Gubanov, who outfits him with a texttovoice earpiece to wirelessly receive his anonymous and lucrative text messages. He then hits themillion Euro jackpot on a slot machine but runs away when casino security led by John Reed Edward Burns attempts to detain him. FBI Agent Dave Grant Ving Rhames interrupts the chase and handcuffs Max to interrogate him about the phone. Frightened, Max is unable to provide any information.At this point, Agent Grant contacts Raymond Burke Martin Sheen of the NSA, apparently monitoring Max because of messages from an omniscient communication surveillance computer system known as Echelon. These messages have been responsible for the deaths of several Americans, most recently a Pentagon IT specialist. Burke recently lost a battle to pass a bill in Congress to allow Echelon to be upgraded by being uploaded into personal computers worldwide. Burke eventually decides that Max knows too much and must be eliminated however, Reed and the beautiful woman from the hotel now revealed as Reeds associate come to Maxs aid and spirit him away to Moscow. There, Max reconnects with the techie Yuri to get his help to discovering who is sending the messages. Yuri believes that the messages are coming directly from the computer itself, and that the system has somehow become selfaware and autonomous. Max and Reed dont agree but flee when more armed men arrive at Yuris apartment. A car chase through Moscow ensues. ........

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