Enemy of the State
by Tony Scott
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Actor: Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King, Will SmithDirector: Tony Scott
Brand: SMITH,WILL
Cinematographer: Daniel Mindel
Producer: Andrew Z. Davis
Producer: Chad Oman
Producer: James W. Skotchdopole
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer: Pat Sandston
Writer: David Marconi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
DVD Reviews of Enemy of the State
DVD Review: Enemy Of The State..It's not paranoia if they're really after you
Summary: 5 Stars
Enemy Of The State stars Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Neither of these fine actors made a bad movie that I know of. This is a fine thriller movie about government surveillance and a bad national security agent played by Jon Voight. The good news is that the surveillance technology featured in this movie is for real and targeted against US enemies . The bad news is that sometimes the government things We are the enemy.DVD Review: Sign of the times
Summary: 4 Stars
Although made in 1998, a few years before 9/11, the movie is very timely with the events happening now in our world. And strangely, the birthdate of Jon Voight, Thomas Reynolds, the main "bad guy" in the movie is Sept. 11.
DVD Review: Action Packed - Thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this movie in 2007 and have since bought the bluray verion of the movie. Downright murder through dirty politics precedes the infidelity, illegal surveillance, crime, and payback that make up this thrill-packed action movie. This movie can so easily be overlooked (at one's loss and peril) but it pitches up there with some of Will Smith's best movies. If you liked Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Downey Jr. and Wesley Snipes's US Marshalls (1998) then you will love this movie. A great buy.DVD Review: No "Conversation"
Summary: 2 Stars
The filmmakers were unwise to make Hackman's character so similar to his earlier role in "The Conversation", as that film is superior to this one in every way. This one's a poor excuse for a thriller. The script's half as clever as it wants to be, and Will Smith's one-liners don't help any. The surveillance technology throughout is more or less magic, doing impossible things with lots of gee-whiz sound effects.DVD Review: Okay for action. Acting not very convincing.
Summary: 2 Stars
Ever see a movie that takes you so far that you actually see the characters as someone really talking in front of you? Will Smith, Lisa Bonet and Tom Sizemore (amongst the others), are acting too hard. They weren't convincing enough to make me feel like they were real characters. Again, the action was great. But the acting was contrived and predictable.
Description of Enemy of the State
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!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
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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