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  • Actors: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King
  • Directors: Tony Scott
  • Writers: David Marconi
  • Producers: Andrew Z. Davis, Chad Oman, James W. Skotchdopole, Jerry Bruckheimer, Pat Sandston
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Dutch
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Jan 2001
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CYZ1
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 36,897 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 humour, 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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Language in Dolby Digital 5.1: English
Subtitles: English/Dutch/Swedish/Danish/Finnish/Norweigan/English Closed Captioned

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 25 Jul 2006
This review is from: Enemy Of The State [DVD] [1998] (DVD)
Enemy Of The State is a perfect example of how to pace an intelligent thriller. Right from the off this film is absolutely gripping. The plot is fairly complex yet such is the skill with which this film has been put together that the viewer never gets lost. Early on in the film when Will Smith realises that someone is after him there's a heart in your mouth chase scene that never seems to let up. This is part of the films strength, because the viewer is always aware that Smith is only ever minutes away from being caught. Even when things slow down momentarily to let the viewer catch up with any plot developments there's always an air of menace at what waits around the corner. Smith's performance is excellent and Gene Hackman as always does a sterling job as an ex CIA man. The ending is very nearly a tribute to director Tony Scott's own True Romance. If you like a decent intelligent thriller they don't come any better than this.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I Wish We Had This Stuff, 28 Nov 2002
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This review is from: Enemy Of The State [DVD] [1998] (DVD)
"Enemy Of The State", is a good piece of entertainment from a duo of filmmakers that have brought many such pieces to the screen. Having said that, if we had 1% of the gee-whiz gadgets that this film had, and they worked with 1% of the efficiency that the film portrays, Osama Bin Laden would have been apprehended before midnight on September 11th. The balance of Al Qaeda would have been rounded up within a day or two. Orwell's vision in, "1984", is tame when compared to the absolute instantaneous control this film portrays the US Government as having over any citizen they pick.

A good story needs good actors and this film has at least a trio of fine performers. Will Smith is a man whose career is still just in the early stages of what should prove to be decades of success, and he already has one Oscar Nomination to his credit, Jon Voight already has an Oscar on his shelf, and one of my favorite actors without condition, Gene Hackman, adds yet another great performance to his resume of films.

There are real government agencies portrayed in the film, but they are portrayed in a science fiction like manner. No film crew is going to get inside of The NSA, and no amount of name dropping of publicly known satellite names, like "Keyhole", make this film's portrayal of data gathering any more believable. The NSA wishes they could do what this film gives them credit for. However if you really want to know what they can and cannot do, there are many very good books that share the little information that is in the public domain. Much of it is dated, but like the first Stealth F117-A fighter, when we (the public) were finally shown the plane, it was already an antique, an incredible and still very useful aircraft, but one that had been around for many, many years, and was already several generations old.

Watch this film for the pace and entertainment of a great chase from beginning to end. Just do not take the technology too seriously, and don't allow it to raise any level of paranoia you may have. One fact about The NSA that has been documented is that they can review less than half of what they collect. This is not due to their competence level, rather the shear volume their systems flag for review.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good conspiracy thriller, 28 Jul 2006
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Enemy of the State is a surprisingly good modern conspiracy thriller and one of the few that, for the most part, gets away with its `happy ending' as the tables are turned on the watchers with their own technology. But it's the early sections that impress the most, with Tony Scott embracing the visual possibilities of the plethora of different forms of everyday surveillance without losing sight of his plot. There's little doubt that Hackman's surveillance expert is two-parts The Conversation's Harry Caul a quarter of a century on, a justifiably paranoid watcher living off the net in an almost identical warehouse and cage, but this is much more of a populist entertainment than a character study, so rather than tearing up the floorboards he's more likely to blow up the whole building.

Neither profound nor subtle, it's not quite as superficial as the average blockbuster and is definitely a lot better than it has a right to be. It also boasts a surprisingly large number of unbilled players in its impressive cast, Tom Sizemore, Jason Robards, Seth Green and Philip Baker Hall among them.
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