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Enemy Of The State [1998]
from Touchstone Home Video
starring Gene Hackman, Jamie Kennedy, Barry Pepper, Jake Busey, Philip Baker Hall
directed by Tony Scott

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• great thriller
  
  Tony Scott is a very seductive director. He presses all the right visual buttons. This man virtually patented the orange-filtered Simpson-Bruckheimer sky. To some, this makes him Ridley's flashy, shallow brother. But when Scott's camera happens upon a decent story and some really fine performers, as with Crimson Tide, the effect is like having your inside leg stroked in the dark for two hours. Enemy Of The State is like that. It's a fairly well-trodden story of national insecurity that's been given a... more info

• Cat & Mouse suspense ... all too possible in real life
  This film took a little time to take off in the beginning, but it was necessary to stage the action that would come later.
  The movie opens with a powerful politician, played by John Voight, killing another politician who refuses to support a bill that would allow spying into people's lives to protect the country. That killing is caught on tape and the tape falls into the hands of a researcher who then slips the tape into a shopping bag carried by Will Smith's character.
  From there the action takes... more info

• FAST MOVING STUFF
  Great action thriller. Great cast which always helps a film along nicely.
  The story is well written and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I answered the door at one point and lost the plot completely. Shut the curtains, take the phone off the hook and do a wee before watching.

• VASTLY UNDERRATED
  Conspiracy theorists who enjoy films like JFK and Conspiracy Theory will have a lot to enjoy with Enemy of the State. For a film that came out almost 10 years ago, it seems just slightly ahead its time. I don't remember everything about 1998, but I do know that things like DVD was in it's nascent stages and although the internet has been part of our vernacular for almost 20 years now, the technology prevalent back in 98 as opposed to now is light years apart. And in the post 911 days, having the idea of our... more info

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