Enemy Of The State is a movie for the thinking man and woman. Director Jerry Bruckheimer toys with your mind, never letting you in on what’s really going on. The ending is completely unexpected.
Robert Clayton Dean, played deftly by Will Smith, is a D.C. labor lawyer who is tough and smart, but his skills are questioned when National Security Agency executive named Reynolds (Jon Voight) believes that Dean has an important videotape.
The most impressive parts of the film are when the NSA uses satellite tracking, microphones, and hidden cameras, allowing you a glimpse at the inside of all of this technology and techno-babble.
Then comes the best casting selection: Gene Hackman as Brill. Brill, once part of the NSA intelligence, has been unearthed after living underground for nineteen years. Hackman and Smith play well off of each other and smoothly lead us into the final stretch of a movie that gets better and better as it goes. This thriller is certainly far fetched, but what about the X-Files? Enemy Of The State is actually a better film than the one named after the popular tv show. And as far as premise is concerned, the only real difference between the two is that one had aliens.
+ charlie craine
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