A
1998 action/
espionage movie directed by Tony Scott. It stars
Will Smith as a
DC labor lawyer who unwittingly holds key evidence to a
crime that was committed by a high-ranking
NSA official.
Gene Hackman plays Brill, an ultra-
paranoid and skilled ex-
NSA spook who works from a
copper wire mesh shielded
HQ. Good stuff.
(
Smith): What the hell is happening?
Brill: I blew up the building.
(Smith): Why?!
Brill: Because you made a phone call!
Enemy is basically a more modern
North By Northwest. It also reminds me of
Coppola's
The Conversation (
1974), in which Gene Hackman plays a quiet surveillance expert who becomes obsessed with the couple he is tracking.