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Enemy of the State (1998) 7.2
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Metascore: 67/100
Reviews: 401 user | 154 critic | 22 from Metacritic.com A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime. Director:Tony ScottWriter:David Marconi |
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Cast
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| Will Smith | ... | ||
| Gene Hackman | ... | ||
| Jon Voight | ... | ||
| Lisa Bonet | ... | ||
| Regina King | ... | ||
| Stuart Wilson | ... | ||
| Laura Cayouette | ... | ||
| Loren Dean | ... | ||
| Barry Pepper | ... | ||
| Ian Hart | ... | ||
| Jake Busey | ... | ||
| Scott Caan | ... | ||
| Jason Lee | ... | ||
| Gabriel Byrne | ... | ||
| James Le Gros | ... | ||
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Robert dean is a mild-mannered lawyer who works in Washington D.C. He is on the trail of a kingpin named Pintero. Meanwhile, a politician named Thomas Reynolds is negotiating with Congressman Phillip Hammersley about a new surveillance system with satellites. But, Hammersley declines, that is when Reynolds had Hammersley killed, but this murder was caught on tape, and this person was being chased by Reynolds' team of NSA agents, the guy must ditch the tape, so he plants it on Dean (unbeknownst to Dean). Then, the NSA decides to get into Dean's life. That is when Dean's life began to fall apart all around him, with his wife and job both gone. Dean wants to find out what is going on. Then, he meets a man named "Brill" who tells him that Dean has something that the government wants. That is when Dean and Brill formulate a plan to get Dean's life back and turn the Tables on Reynolds. Written by John Wiggins
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The only privacy left is inside of your head See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 November 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Enemigo público See more »Box Office
Budget:
$90,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£1,420,216 (UK) (25 December 1998)Gross:
$111,544,445 (USA) (16 April 1999)Company Credits
Production Co:
Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films See more »
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2.35 : 1
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Congressman Phillip Hammersley: Come on. Come on, mutt. Now, look at that ball. All right. Come on, get that ball. Ah!
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OSHA standards for cleaning supplies, as in the cleaning supply closet at the hotel, specifically forbid flammable cleaning supplies for the very reason that Dean proved: a fire hazard. Moreover, it would be incomprehensible that any hotel with even the smallest degree of safety precautions would even think about keeping lighters, ashtrays and flammable liquids anywhere near one another. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Congressman Phillip Hammersley: Come on. Come on, mutt. Now, look at that ball. All right. Come on, get that ball. Ah!
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Why? Well for starters there is the best chase sequence since The French Connection. Then there is Will Smith as an actor - not just a star, though later in the movie he is admittedly overshadowed by veteran Gene Hackman.
There are two layers to this movie: On the surface is a pacy thriller with edge-of-the-seat chases but underneath lies a telling commentary on government surveillance. It is one of those truth-in-fiction stories which makes its point about government intrusion into privacy dramatically and effectively.
There are references to the classic, The Conversation: The surveilled couple talking in the park, and the Hackman character's premises are an obvious recreation of his workshop in the earlier movie. If you haven't yet seen The Conversation - see it before you see this one - you will understand the Hackman character a lot better (besides, it is a superb movie in its own right).
Oh, and Jon Voight is terrific as the bad guy...