Revealing mistake: Near the end of the film, after the shootout, there's a shot with the camera zooming in on a newspaper at Will Smith's front door. If you pause it right once the headline fills the top of the screen, you'll notice all the paragraphs are just repeated, word for word. Additionally the word "received" is misspelled.
Enemy of the State (1998)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Gene Hackman, Will Smith, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet
After Robert and Brill get captured by Reynolds' men, Robert tells Reynolds that the tape is at a restaurant nearby. They go inside, and it turns out Robert double-crossed them by leading them into a mob den. The mobsters have another tape, one that will incriminate them and they don't want to give it up. Reynold's tries to get the tape back, thinking it is the one that shows him killing the senator. The mobsters, Reynolds and his men end up all shooting each other dead while Robert hides under a table. Brill escapes. The FBI storm in and arrest everyone else. We see a short interrogation of two hackers who thought it was all a training mission. Then Robert back at his house sees Brill on his tv and knows he is being watched...
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Congressman Phillip Hammersley: Telecommunications Security and Privacy Act. Invasion of privacy is more like it. - You read the Post?"This bill is not the first step towards the surveillance society. It is the surveillance society."
Trivia: Seth Green, who plays one of the main surveillance guys in the van, is not listed in the opening or closing credits. In addition, Tom Sizemore, who plays the mobster Paulie Pintero, goes uncredited.
Question: Why does Thomas Reynolds want the telecommunications security and privacy act to be passed into law so bad that he has a congressman killed? To advance his career?
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Answer: Yes, and to increase the importance of his agency.
David Mercier