Echelon Conspiracy - Eagle Eye meets the Bourne something-or-other

If you've seen either `Eagle Eye' or one of the `Bourne' films then you've basically seen a better version of `Echelon Conspiracy.' It's not a bad film, just not quite as good as the ones it was based on. It has a decent enough cast to elevate it above most of the B-movie thrillers, but it's nothing we haven't seen before, i.e. it's a `chase movie.'

Shane West plays... whoever is going to be chased by... whichever shady agency is after him. Therefore, he gets chased from one European city to the next, narrowly escaping each time. Until such time as he can bring the perpetrator to justice.

The first half doesn't contain an awful lot of chasing and, in my opinion, it's actually better for it. There's an air of mystery about it where you don't know what's going to happen and it is quite tense in places. However, the second half is where the action/chases take place and so it feels a bit like we've seen it all before.

If you're in the mood for a Boune clone of a movie then you could do worse than this.

5/10 a hard trek, a bit like unicycling to Mordor and back