It's easy to overlook *Enemy of the State*, yet it remains a genuinely enjoyable action movie! This paranoid story, reminiscent of Tony Scott’s style, isn’t groundbreaking but provides plenty of excitement. I appreciate Scott’s films, and while this one doesn’t rank among my absolute favorites, it's still a really good suspenseful spy film—it has the same sense of government cover-ups as the *Jason Bourne* movies,…

Jason Lee, playing "Zavitz," has a brief role in this film, though even with his limited screen time (ending abruptly when his character is killed in a car crash), he initiates a cascade of problems for the lawyer "Dean" (Will Smith). The reason? We're already aware of the circumstances surrounding the death of "Congressman Hammersley" (Jason Robards), but the perpetrators didn’t account for a video camera documentin…

The relationship between government and telecommunications has been problematic for decades; it’s permeated every aspect of things. Enemy of the State comes from director Tony Scott, with a script by David Marconi. The cast includes Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, and Lisa Bonet. Harry Gregson-Williams and Trevor Rabin composed the music, and Dan Mindel handled the cinematography. The film ce…

"Enemy of the State," a crime/action/thriller from 1998 directed by Tony Scott, features Will Smith as a Washington DC lawyer who stumbles upon evidence related to a major crime involving a powerful politician (Jon Voight). After this discovery, he finds himself pursued by agents from the NSA (played by Jack Black, Seth Green, and others) and hired muscle (Scott Caan, Jake Busey, etc.). He eventually teams up with a …

It’s unsettling how much of what was once just a movie feels like it's happening now. Considering the gradual loss of our rights and privacy online, this film ought to act as a warning about a future we should be trying to avoid. The arguments used by politicians, the wealthy, and government organizations in the wake of the terror attacks are mirrored within the story. The same justifications surface ("if you have…