Enemy of the State

Pros: eye candy meets Will Smith
Cons: stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid

Now that his latest flick, Domino, about the real-life bounty hunter, has outraged all sentient life - for being nothing more than a series of jagged angles, saturated colors, eye-popping music-video blender-edited schlock, it's nice to know it wasn't ...

Pros: action adventure, well performed, directed and written
Cons: It makes you wonder how close to the truth this could be

This is a Jerry Brudchiemer film. Distributed by Touchstone Pictures. Production by Don Simpson/Jerry Bruchiemer in association with Scott free Productions. A film by Tony Scott who also directed it. It is rated R

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Pros: The Story, Acting, Well Thought Out!
Cons: None!

If you really want to know what are government is capable of then watch this movie. As a person that has access to certain toys myself I will tell you everything you see in this movie can be done. Anyone can watch this movie but, for the younger audience ...

Pros: lots of fun
Cons: unrealistic

At the beginning of Enemy of the State, we discover the National Security Agency wants to get the power to bug every house, every phone, to photograph everyone, to... become big brother.

Background on the National Security...

Pros: Fun and a little thought provoking. Hackman is excellent as always.
Cons: A little too cute for its own good at times.

Enemy of the State does for the National Security agency what movies like Three Days of the Condor did for the CIA during the 1970s and 1980s. Robert Clayton Dean -- Will Smith -- is a hot run Washington labor lawyer who experiences the misfortune of ...

Pros: Scary as hell, Good performances.
Cons: That something like it could actually happen in real life.

How much do they know about you? Are they watching your every move, listening to everything you say? Is big brother really out there? These are some of the questions raised by the scary as hell Enemy Of The State, an excellent film with its basis in real...

Pros: A solid film with good acting and thrills
Cons: none apparent

Sometimes I love Will Smith's vehicles; other times I can leave them. Enemy of the State was a keeper for me. Robert Dean (Will Smith) reminded me of the majority of us. We do not see a change in the political climate as a threat to our...

Pros: Good actors
Cons: Unbelievable

What does it take to turn the U.S. government onto your scent? Maybe, a tape of The National Security Agency killing off a State Representative.

The Unbelievable

The Representative is killed in broad daylight at a local...

Pros: Crazy enough to be real, and realistic enough to make you wonder. Good performances, lots of action, excellent ending.
Cons: A little "out there", a few slow parts.

Enemy of the State is the sort of film that really makes you wonder about privacy and personal security. Considering that we live in the age of technology, one has to wonder -- what is the price for all of this...

Pros: Thought-provoking and nicely acted.
Cons: Simplicity of the plot may be a turn-off for some.

This has all the makings of a great flick. It's produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who isn't exactly one of the great minds of film, but is still a great producer. You've got Tony Scott directing, who is in a rank or two behind that of Speilberg or Lucas....

Pros: A well directed, visually stunning, bag full of cliches...
Cons: A well directed, visually stunning, bag full of cliches...

"Enemy of the State" is a bag full of cliches that tries hard to create character, but lost my interest to quickly that by the timing came up with some originality and interesting twists -- it was too late. The movie fails to capture our interests...

Pros: Some great action sequences
Cons: Story dud, lacks brains

"Enemy of the State" is a schizophrenic picture book, alternating between fantastically staged action sequences and the ultimate idiot plot. Government conspiracy movies have always been snoozers, but government conspiracy action movies are...

Pros: More true to life than 99% of the people think
Cons: The script didn't give Wil Smith enough brains to pour sand out of a boot

All right, I enjoyed the movie -- so shoot me! I really don't care for those reviews that are so pedantic they only serve to convince me of my own stupidity for liking something.

At first glance, Enemy of the State falls far short of...

Pros: fast-paced action thriller
Cons: contrived, convoluted script

The tagline for this political thriller is: "It's not paranoia if they're really after you." And they're really after Will Smith, who plays a Washington D.C. attorney.

His life is running smoothly until he bumps into Jason...

Pros: Good film, very relevant. Fine performances from all involved.
Cons: Sometimes stretches the limits of believability, but not too far.

The best thrillers play off of a kind of common paranoia, the kind of things that your average Joe would find troubling or scary. The big daddy paranoia of them all is of course the sense that you're being watched. "Enemy of the State" plays...