Enemy of the State
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Movie Reviews of Enemy of the State
Movie Review: Scary and Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie actually gave me the creeps, that this might actually happen or have already happened. The scenes on how evil the National Security Agency can be and how they track down Will Smith's character. They appear to be their own Crime Family as they end up killing each other in the end.I saw this movie when it first came out in theatres and it completely blew my mind. The thought that the Government or the NSA, could not only be the NSA but its officers had the chance to take on not only their own idenity but the face of anything they wanted - in fact when the two NSA officers first came to Smith's house, they introduced themselves as the DC Police and even produced badges.
Even the way they tried to scare the Senator and ended up killing him when he told the Deputy NSA Communications Director, Jon Voight, that he wasn't going to vote his way.
And the DC Mafia makes a scary adding to the movie, as the NSA uses Smith's character as a lawyer for serious goofed up Mobsters (as in the first scene when the mobster and Smith are talking) and Hackman's character is giving Smith the tapes of Sizemore and his friends at a party, and Smith threatned to use it against him.
The FBI are in the movie for laughs though as saying "Geez, he doesn't look Italian" as Smith made his way out of the Sizemore's restaurant and the old man gave the agents' the finger and they took a picture of the shocked Smith.
This has to be one of the best spy movies of all time! And when you finish seeing it you'll be checking your smoke detectors and carefully watching the reception on your TV for any bugs.
Movie Review: Outstanding - to say the very least
Summary: 5 Stars
The film pulls no punches. This has to be close to the finest film Will Smith has ever made, and it's hard to see why it didn't do a lot better at the box office.If anything, its even more relevant than the day it was released. None of the technology is fictional, (despite some comments) it's all in deployment right now.
Ironically, since the enactment of the Patriot act in the USA, and the second act more recently, this film has assumed a quite weirdly prophetic status. Many comments recently made about the changing character about America (See Tim Robbins recent address to the National Press club) are very to the point here and can't be ignored. It's so easy to see that people like Jerry Falwell are now coming very close to issuing the kind of frightening rhetoric seen in this film - art has met the horizon of reality all too quickly.
Perhaps though, the film's single most biting comment is on the nature of the lobby system and the problem of the separation of judicial and executive powers in the USA, which if anything is far more malefidious and dangerous than what the film depicts.
But, sufficient to say, all this is nothing compared with Hackmans gem of a performance of terse and cranky sainthood. He excels at the hero - putting everything into his character. This only gives the film more authenticity and a really hard edge.
I just can't fault this movie. The ending is so good, it's impossible really, but there can be no end of sofas being thumped way out there in suburbia and enthusiastic whoops. There's no doubt this film absolutely deserves such.
Movie Review: best performance by will smith to date
Summary: 5 Stars
as one of our honorable reviewers has mentioned, there are some technical discrepencies involved in this movie. like the '3d rotational' computer engine. and the lack of forensic evidence on the senator's body. and the magical ability of gene hackman's character to do just about anything he wants to electronics in the back seat of his el-camino. but i don't mind; if life has taught me anything, it's that screenwriters don't often have the firmest grasp on science.then again, oftentimes movies written with gaps in scientific understanding are the most enjoyable. if you get caught up in the diodes and antennas of the props, you miss the premise, which is, 'what if the gob'ment really WAS plotting against us?' - and on that premise, this movie does well.
factual discrepencies aside, this was a good screenplay. it was gripping and engaging; we are presented with a real-life situation that follows it's cinimagraphic tangent to fruition. the actors give fantastic performances - especially the leads. it is shot in a manner that adds to the paranoid atmosphere of the film; presumably it's what Tony Scott and Jerry Bruckhimer had in mind.
all those things sum to make a good movie. being an EECS geek from Gen-X, i particularly like the interaction between the younger characters in the film. Will Smith, as i say, has his first gig not playing himself, and he comes off well.
anyway, i enjoyed this film enough to buy it (my disc does not have any defects, although my friend's first one did) and i think you will, too.
Movie Review: A NOVICE WHO' S A LAWYER AND AN ANCIENT SPY
Summary: 5 Stars
When WILL SMITH in this MOVIE who's confronted witch very much difficults problems of a STATE CONSPIRACY, he become a precedence of the elite which is composed of C.I.A. N.S.A. F.B.I. and many other stranges services illegitimates SPYS WHO ARE OBEYING of the orders of influent strange man who has killed his almost friend, and then, these CONSPIRATORS who are ables to kill anybody throught their road so as to ensure an uncovicing PROGRESS whitch consist to have any authority for transgress yhe all of the private life of any body in the AMERICA OR THE WORLD WITH CONSIDERABLES AVERAGES SUCH WHITCH ARE SATELITTES AND EMITTERS, THEN THE YOUNG MAN (WILL) WHO'S JUST A SPARE FOR GOVERNMENT AND A SIMPLE ADVOCATE WHO BEGAIN STRONG WITH A ITALIAN MAFIOSO Who has difficulty whith THE LAW, and after that when he is deprived of his credit cards and many other things , when he is forced in a jift to take away his alls garments with a curious intelligent old man for him but he is very much contented to know the identity suddenly of an ancient efficient best of the bests SPYS whou's BOUND TO SHATTER HIS CONFIDENTIALITY EVER SINCE LONGTIME (GENE HACKMAN) THEY WILL SURPISE EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD OF THESE STRANGES MEN WITH ABILITY TO ASSASSINATION RHEY FORMS STILL AGAIN BUT FOR THE FIRST TIME TWO IN PICTURES HISTORY AND EVERY INGREDIENTS ARE GOODS IN THIS SPLENDID D.V.D.MOVIE NOT DEAD TIME WITH THESE ALL ACTORS WILL SMITH AND GENE HACKMAN ARE VERY GOODS ACTORSMovie Review: It exceeds your expectations
Summary: 5 Stars
The acting in Enemy of the state is far beyond Ok as you see Will Smith set up the high tension and thrills perfectly. The movie starts out with a little confusement so already I liked it because unlike the movies today I wasn't able to predict a thing. Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) is a lawyer with a wife and family that loves a orginized and free of crime life. turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy (Jason Lee) at a lingerie shop where he goes to pick up a gift for his wife. While waiting he's just been had a videotape sliped into his bag containing a congressman's assassination. Right on his back for this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a hostile 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. Privacy is never certain in this movie and it shows you that it's like that in real life. There's no sign of slowing down until the very end.