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The Movie Review
 Enemy of the State
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Big Brother is not just watching, he's ruining
your life. Robert Clayton Dean is just another lawyer living out the American Dream. But
you know as soon as the camera enters his world that something will happen. And it does,
when an incriminating piece of evidence against a very senior member of the National
Security Agency (NSA) falls into his hands. The NSA gets after him, and his life is almost
wrecked. Almost. Smith, as the beleaguered lawyer, is perfectly cast, even managing some
lighter moments despite the overriding tension. And Hackman playing the mysterious Brill,
a former NSA operative who comes to Dean's aid, exudes a quiet charisma that makes you
forget how small -- significant no doubt, but small -- his role is. It's all very
far-fetched, as such films usually are, but director Tony Scott has taken a script that
rarely resorts to unexpected twists (the villain's identity is known from the start), and
made a gripping, highly watchable thriller of it.
-Anna M.M. Vetticad
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