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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ENEMY OF THE STATE Starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight Directed by Tony Scott Touchstone Pictures...
...Robert Dean, a D.C. labor lawyer involved in a violent union dispute involving the mafia. Dean receives incriminating evidence for his trials from his old girlfriend (Lisa Bonet of "The Cosby Show" fame), who works as an agent of a secretive, unknown informant namd Brill (a grizzled Gene Hackman). Dean lives the perfect American life with a loving wife, wonderful children, a beautiful house and his prized juice blender. But everything changes when a bird-watcher (Jason Lee) catches the execution of a venerable U.S. Congressman by the head of the National Security Agency (Jon Voight). Soon, Dean is unknowingly...
Despite Smith's stellar performance, the film's most interesting character is Brill, played wonderfully by Hackman. He is a dark and bitter ex-agent of the National Security Agency out for revenge against the institution that forsook him. His motivations are skewed, actions devious and intent unknown. In one moment he condemns Dean's ignorance and uselessness; in another he courageously saves Dean's life. The chemistry between Hackman and Smith is powerful, as the two reluctant heroes transform initial self-interest into teamwork. The ending is a contrived and coincidental as a novel by Charles Dickens, but does...
...characters unknown quantities. Under pressure, Smith's attorney demonstrates the kind of stamina and physical agility that people confined to desk jobs find within themselves only in the movies. His sole ally, Brill, a former government operative who has turned into a rogue counterintelligence specialist, is played by Gene Hackman as a funny, cranky imitation--right down to the horn-rimmed glasses--of the snoop he played so memorably in The Conversation almost 25 years ago. And, as their chief nemesis, Jon Voight does another variation on his late-life specialty: the midnight conspirator whose puffy face stands in such...
...longer makes, the story of Z (voiced by the master himself), a timid, neurotically oppressed, sexually obsessed, glumly funny urban male who somehow stumbles his way to conditional happiness. That his urb happens to be an ant colony, his beloved (Sharon Stone) its overindulged princess and his nemesis (Gene Hackman) a fascist general mounting a coup adds a nice weird touch to the tale, as does the dark-toned computer animation. Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films...