Enemy of the State

Name: Enemy of the State
Released: 1998-11-20
Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean

Enemy of the State

R
2h 12m
1998

72%

age 16+

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Hot Hollywood favorite Will Smith stars with Academy Award winner Gene Hackman (Best Actor, 1971) in a high-powered suspense thriller where nonstop action meets cutting-edge technology! Robert Clayton Dean is a successful Washington, D.C., attorney who -- without his knowledge -- is given a video that ties a top official of the National Security Agency to a political murder! A lethal team of skilled NSA operatives wages a relentless, ultra-high-tech campaign to discredit Dean and retrieve the incriminating evidence! Also featuring Regina King in an impressive, star-studded cast -- get ready for even more action to explode as Dean desperately races to reclaim his once normal life.

Director:

Tony Scott

Producer:

Jerry Bruckheimer

Writer:

David Marconi

Cast:

Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Busey, Barry Pepper, Gabriel Byrne

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

72%

Critics Consensus: An entertaining, topical thriller that finds director Tony Scott on solid form and Will Smith confirming his action headliner status.

Reviews

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Michael Gaither

Scott creates suspense by utilizing believable technology and realistic, well-grounded characters.

As a simple thriller that wants only to excite and intensify, it's one of the better ones that the...

Decent thriller; not suitable for kids.

A highly enjoyable hi-tech thriller.

[Its] spirited action is balanced by an almost contemplative attitude toward surveillance phobias...

August 15, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Late-'90s action movie has frequent profanity, violence.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Enemy of the State is a 1998 action movie with frequent profanity, action-style violence, and sexual content, including references to oral sex and infidelity. While the movie does show the machinations of a pre-9/11 government agency determined to a ruin the life and credibility of a man in possession of filmed evidence of spies killing a Congressman, the primary focus is on the nonstop action. There are also racial slurs: an African-American lawyer is referred to as an "eggplant," and Italian-American mobsters are called "guidos."