The Gift (2009)
Also known as Echelon Conspiracy in the US this conspiracy thriller stars Shane West (who?) with support from Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce and Martin Sheen. When a young computer engineer receives a mobile phone in the post strange things start to happen.
To say the plot for this film is recycled would be being kind, government invasion of personal privacy for security reasons and computers becoming sentient are both interesting topics unfortunately neither is explored and are just used as MacGuffins in this film. You get a real feeling that this is a paint by numbers film, pick a couple of buzz words for the plot and throw in a sex scene, an action scene and a car chase and we will call that done. I honestly could not care what happens to the protagonist as he has no personality at all and as the plot is easily worked out straight away that does not leave any reason to watch this film.
2/5 a poor attempt at a story you can see done much better else where.
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