Enemy of the State (1998)

Genre : Action, Drama, Thriller

Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) is a successful lawyer in Washington DC. He has a beautiful life with his wife (Regina King) and his son in a nice house located in Georgetown. One day accidentally he meets an old college friend in a store. Dean doesn’t know that his friend secretly drops a disc into his bag. After leaving the store, Dean sees that friend is killed in a traffic accident.

This morning Congressman Phillip Hammerson was killed by the National Security Agency agents in the park. The assassination was arranged by the NSA senior advisor Thomas Reynolds (Jon Voight). This murder was recorded on video by Dean’s friend. In no time, the NSA agents were breaking into his house to destroy this important evidence. So he tried to conceal the evidence by secretly slipped the disc into Dean’s bag before got killed by NSA agents.

Without realizing that the disc is containing important evidence of a congressman murder, Dean finds he becomes the target of the NSA. The NSA gets into his life. Dean's life begins to fall apart. He looses his job and his wife is gone. All of his accounts and assets are frozen. Dean wants to find out what is going on. The only man that can help him is Brill (Gene Hackman), a former government operative and an expert of surveillance system.

Director : Tony Scott
Awards : Nominated for Oscar
Rating : 7/10