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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936724936
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 9679
Studio: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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Description:
Will Smith and Gene Hackman trigger rapid-fire suspense in ENEMY OF THE STATE on Blu-ray’s high definition disc. The star-studded adventure Rolling Stone calls 'a dynamite thriller' heats up as this volatile new format explodes onto the screen. After a Washington, D.C. attorney is given – without his knowledge – a video tying a top National Security Agency official to a political murder, he finds himself targeted by a relentless team of lethal NSA surveillance operatives. Watch as nonstop action meets cutting-edge technology in astounding 1080p, and hear the echo of every footstep with 5.1 48 kHz, 24-bit uncompressed audio. Surrender your senses to the awesome power of Blu-ray™ High Definition!
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Okay for action. Acting not very convincing.
Ever see a movie that takes you so far that you actually see the characters as someone really talking in front of you? Will Smith, Lisa Bonet and Tom Sizemore (amongst the others), are acting too hard. They weren't convincing enough to make me feel like they were real characters. Again, the action was great. But the acting was contrived and predictable.
Rating:  - Enemy of the State
An earlier Will Smith movie but the first that allowed him out of his "Fresh Prince" role. Loved it when first released and loved it now, essential if one is keeping Will Smith movies. Nice blu ray transfer.
Rating: - Post 9/11 - Must See Movie
Wow, I remember seeing this movie a long time ago and didn't really give it much thought. It just seemed like Hollywood hysteria and way out there fiction for the most part. I had forgotten about the movie.
Recently I was shopping for some DVD's here on Amazon and this movie came up on my recommended list. So I bought a copy and watched it. This movie really freaked me out watching it now in a post 9/11 world. The measures taken by those in power to get what they wanted - "The Telecommunications, Security, and Privacy Act" and dead on similarities of the powers enacted by the "The Patriot Act" should be a wakeup call for everyone. To quote the chairman at the beginning of the movie: "Invasion of privacy is more like it", and he goes on to state: "This bill is not the first step to the surveillance of society, IT IS the surveillance of society"... Of course the government bad guy played by Voight says: "It's just liberal hysteria" The chairman had the good sense to say: "I am not going to sit in congress and pass a bill that allows the government to point a camera and microphone at anything they darn well please!"
All this is in the opening scenes of this movie. Now I would have given the movie 5 stars, but some of the things are a stretch as far as capabilities and things happening which I won't go into in this review. In this post 9/11 world I feel this movie is dead on relevant and the abilities and power the government has given itself by playing on our fears ... Read More
Rating: - Very good
US techno-thriller in which successful lawyer Will Smith's life is turned upside down when he somehow gets hold of a tape that shows prominent politician Jon Voight murdering a fellow congressman. Voight and his people find out that Smith has possession of the tape and then set about trying to get the tape back, tracking Smith using the latest surveillance technology including tracers and spy satellites. They also invalidate Smith and his wife's credit cards by computer to make life as difficult for Smith as possible and murder Smith's close friend Lisa Bonet, hoping to frame Smith for her murder in an attempt to discredit him if he were ever to go public with what he knows. Smith goes on the run and eventually teams up with reclusive former National Security Agency employee and technological whiz Gene Hackman and together they try to bring the nefarious Voight and his team down. A pacy conspiracy thriller showing the potential for the abuse of power by those that control the surveillance technology that is supposed to protect us from threats such as terrorism and a timely commentary on the erosion of personal privacy and civil liberties in this day and age. Not a perfect movie because I did not feel that justice had been correctly served by the end of the movie but nonetheless very good.
Rating: - great movie
Will Smith is great in this movie. Him and Gene Hackman are good together. Lots of action and great storyline.
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