Enemy of the State [Blu-ray]
starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean
directed by: Tony Scott
directed by: Tony Scott
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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 21-NOV-2006
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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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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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
No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 21-NOV-2006
Media Type: Blu-Ray
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Amazon.com:
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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Blu ray movie
I love blu rays ever since I bought and you cant get any better picture or thrill in any other system like the blu ray. I fully recommend this movie for an action thriller.
Rating: - Enemy Of The State..It's not paranoia if they're really after you
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.
Rating: - Sign of the times
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.
Rating: - Action Packed - Thriller
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.
Rating: 
- No "Conversation"
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.
- Blu ray movieI love blu rays ever since I bought and you cant get any better picture or thrill in any other system like the blu ray. I fully recommend this movie for an action thriller.
- Enemy Of The State..It's not paranoia if they're really after youEnemy 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.
- Sign of the timesAlthough 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.
- Action Packed - ThrillerI 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.
- No "Conversation"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.
