Entertainment in a Glance

Cast :
Shane West ... Max Peterson
Edward Burns... John Reed
Ving Rhames... Agent Dave Grant
Yuriy Kutsenko... Russian General
Sergey Gubanov... Yuri Malanin
Martin Sheen... Raymond Burke
Steven Elder... Charles
Sandra De Sousa... Female Casino Tech
Greg Donaldson... Casino Tech


Review :
After a prologue in which a cutting-edge cell phone leads a woman to death via text message, the device winds up in the hands of Shane West, a computer wizard who specializes in security encryption. At first, the phone works like magic: West gets inside information on when a plane will go down, when stocks will skyrocket, and when to shove in all his chips at the blackjack table. But it’s an extremely coveted sinister device, leading West into a showdown with the National Security Agency, which is working to harness all network devices into a spying program more invasive than the Patriot Act could have ever conceived.