Review – Enemy of the State

Here’s another just-because-you’re-paranoid-doesn’t-mean-they-aren’t-out-to-get-you movie. Will Smith stars as an innocent man who gets caught up in a conspiracy (I’ll spare you the details, because this is only supposed to be a paragraph-long review), and Gene Hackman plays the crusty old ex-agent who turns out to be our hero’s only hope. Occasionally the film tries to masquerade as a serious commentary on the evils of the surveillance society, but for the most part it sticks to the tried-and-true conventions of the Will Smith action movie: snappy remarks, expensive effects and plenty of violence. Mildly amusing