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Enemy of the State
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King
Directed By: Tony Scott
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SMITH,WILL
EAN: 9786305428114
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0788814915
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-06-15
Running Time: 132
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 1998-11-20
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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Summary: Very good
Comment: US techno-thriller in which successful lawyer Will Smith's life is turned upside down when he somehow gets hold of a tape that shows prominent politician Jon Voight murdering a fellow congressman. Voight and his people find out that Smith has possession of the tape and then set about trying to get the tape back, tracking Smith using the latest surveillance technology including tracers and spy satellites. They also invalidate Smith and his wife's credit cards by computer to make life as difficult for Smith as possible and murder Smith's close friend Lisa Bonet, hoping to frame Smith for her murder in an attempt to discredit him if he were ever to go public with what he knows. Smith goes on the run and eventually teams up with reclusive former National Security Agency employee and technological whiz Gene Hackman and together they try to bring the nefarious Voight and his team down. A pacy conspiracy thriller showing the potential for the abuse of power by those that control the surveillance technology that is supposed to protect us from threats such as terrorism and a timely commentary on the erosion of personal privacy and civil liberties in this day and age. Not a perfect movie because I did not feel that justice had been correctly served by the end of the movie but nonetheless very good.
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Summary: great movie
Comment: Will Smith is great in this movie. Him and Gene Hackman are good together. Lots of action and great storyline.
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Summary: Good but....
Comment: The plot was excellent, gene hackman and will smith were excellent but one thing that got me extremely aggravated was the innaccurate portrayal of the NSA and their agents, especially the agents, I mean who on earth is gonna believe seth green jack black and all those actors from gone in 60 seconds and saving private ryan are real nsa agents, their acting was so off and i could never for a second believe any of them had the intelligence nor the ability to work for any federal agency other than the post office. If you are gonna choose bad guys, choose bad guys that we can believe are truely bad not just dim-witted.
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Summary: Cat & Mouse suspense ... all too possible in real life
Comment: This film took a little time to take off in the beginning, but it was necessary to stage the action that would come later.
The movie opens with a powerful politician, played by John Voight, killing another politician who refuses to support a bill that would allow spying into people's lives to protect the country. That killing is caught on tape and the tape falls into the hands of a researcher who then slips the tape into a shopping bag carried by Will Smith's character.
From there the action takes off at a breathtaking pace. The parts are flawlessly acted - John Voight is the perfect embodiment of the stereotypical evil politician, Will Smith is the helpless victim, and Gene Hackman is the brilliant strategist who pulls the entire film together. I won't say more as I wouldn't want to spoil the suspense.
The thing about this movie is it seems so terrifyingly real. They show throughout the film, the tracking systems used (satellites and high end computer programs). I found myself thinking about this one for days after seeing it. It made me pause and wonder just how real the scenario could be and what it would mean to the general population.
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Summary: Intense Intelligence Thriller
Comment: Easily overlooked but is a very engaging movie. Will Smith is very good in this movie!
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