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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Touchstone / Disney
Salesrank: 3963
Released: June 15, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Hot Hollywood favorite Will Smith (MEN IN BLACK, INDEPENDENCE DAY) stars with Academy Award(R)-winner Gene Hackman (Best Actor, 1971, THE FRENCH CONNECTION) in a high-powered suspense thriller where nonstop action meets cutting-edge technology! Robert Clayton Dean (Smith) is a successful Washington, D.C., attorney who -- without his knowledge -- is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency (Oscar(R)-winner Jon Voight, Best Actor, 1978, COMING HOME) to a political murder! Instantly, every aspect of Dean's once-normal life is targeted by a lethal team of skilled NSA surveillance operatives who wage a relentless, ultra-high-tech campaign to discredit him and retrieve the incriminating evidence! Also featuring Regina King (JERRY MAGUIRE, BOYZ N THE HOOD) in an impressive, star-studded cast -- get ready for the action to explode as Dean desperately races to reclaim his life and prove his innocence before it's too late!
Description of Enemy of the State:
Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) is a lawyer with a wife and family whose happily normal life is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy (Jason Lee) at a lingerie shop. Unbeknownst to the lawyer, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination. Hot on the tail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently ambitious fed named Reynolds (Jon Voight). Using surveillance from satellites, bugs, and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing each physical and digital footprint he leaves. Driven by acute paranoia, Dean enlists the help of a clandestine former NSA operative named Brill (Gene Hackman), and Enemy of the State kicks into high-intensity hyperdrive.
Teaming up once again with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Top Gun director Tony Scott demonstrates his glossy style with clever cinematography and breakneck pacing. Will Smith proves that there's more to his success than a brash sense of humor, giving a versatile performance that plausibly illustrates a man cracking under the strain of paranoid turmoil. Hackman steals the show by essentially reprising his role from The Conversation--just imagine his memorable character Harry Caul some 20 years later. Most of all, the film's depiction of high-tech surveillance is highly convincing and dramatically compelling, making this a cautionary tale with more substance than you'd normally expect from a Scott-Bruckheimer action extravaganza. --Jeremy Storey
Enemy of the State Reviews:
The American citizens the last to know... 
2009-10-15 - The relevance of this film is strikingly frightening
today.
The unsuspecting John Q Public (Will Smith) is on
the run, even stripping down to his boxers to symbolize
the insecurity of the average Amercian by the
ever-intrusive government sworn to uphold our ineffective
Constitutional Rights; highlighting modern technology gone
rampant under the guise of protecting our supposedly
inherent natural rights. The right to privacy is trampled
on by NSA agents (portrayed as young prying clowns)under
the command of a nefarious reptile played to a T by Jon
Voight.
The players in the system of illusory rights hound
John Q Public since he unknowingly carries on him
evidence of a Congressman's death and it's at this
point where things slowly unfold for the naive citizen
as he is relentlessly chased by Big Brother via satellites,
ATM and tunnel cameras, cell phone signal tracking, bugs,
etc. hitting home the film's point: privacy is a thing of
the past. It even points out that a natural serene pond
view of geese isn't a safe place for some privacy. The film
gains steam midway as a paranoidal ex-NSA agent, Brill
(Hackman) literally knocks some sense into John Q and
shows him the painful truth; the truth that Joe Blow
easily dismissed during a scene earlier into the movie.
Released almost 3 years prior to 9/11, "Enemy of the State"
bombards the senses with quick editing, hyper-action, and
loud jolts of sound as if to say, "Wake up!" Orwell has been
rolling in his grave for some time now. One reviewer pointed
out Brill's birthday of 9/11 in a quick flash scene. If only
this was a coincidence and not a confirming nod to those who
are privy numerologists, but considering the studio which
released this film it should be of no surprise.
So sit back, crack open a can of soda and pop open a bag
of popcorn and pay witness to one man's life quickly turned
upside down by a power hungry, guilt-ridden government
seeking safety under its ever-intrusive eye.
Action and More Action 
2009-10-13 - I never get tried of this movie. The acting, chase scenes and sounds kept me glued to my seat.
A solid thriller.
2009-10-12 - This is a very exciting movie. There is not a single bad performance in the movie.
Enemy of the State DVD
2009-09-10 - AMAZING MOVIE! And great DVD quality. No scratched, came wrapped in plastic. Good buy... 10/10!
Blu ray movie
2009-05-21 - I love blu rays ever since I bought and you cant get any better picture or thrill in any other system like the blu ray. I fully recommend this movie for an action thriller.
