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A few more offerings. One of my favorite action movies, Enemy Of the State (1998), starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman, with supporting roles by Jsson Robards, John Voight, Jason Lee and Jack Black. For me, one of the best political conspiracy movies since All The President's Men.
And Jason Robards had a pivotal supporting role in both movies.

Comparisons have been made of Enemy of the State to Three Days of The Condor (1975), both dealing with what would now be termed "the Deep State", a cabal of government officials using their government positions to spy on and eliminate people and other high officials who get in the way of their political / ideological plans to abuse federal power. With the difference that Enemy Of the State goes much further than the preceding 1975 film into the abilities to use technology to spy on other political parties, other federal officials, and to spy on private citizens.

Much of the surveillance technology shown in Enemy of the State was dismissed as fantasy at the time it was released in 1998. But the scandals of Edward Snowden, and then the FBI and CIA spying on and staging multiple coups against the 2016 Trump campaign, and then ongoing FBI traps and surveillance on into 2017, the FBI continuing to spy on the inaugurated Trump administration, abusing the FISA court, infiltrating Trump's campaign with moles like Natalya Veselnitskaya, Josef Mifsud, and Stefan Halper (not just one mole, but many), and other FBI schemes by the highest people in the intelligence field, such as CIA director John Brennan, FBI's James Comey and Andrew McCabe, DNI director James Clapper. and national securitty advisor Susan Rice. And all even having authorization to do so by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

And then the Biden White House in 2022 launched FOUR fake lawfare cases against Trump, orchestrated by the very top FBI, DOJ, CIA and White House officials. Over the last 10 years or so, every last abuse of power possible from the FBI / DOJ arsenal.
Including TWO assassination attempts on Trump himself in 2024 (that rogue elements in Secret Service and FBI are still suppressing investigation of, very possibly hiding their own involvement in orchestrating), used in an attempt to prevent Trump from being re-elected president, all done across many years from 2016-2024.

In light of all this, what is portrayed in Enemy of the State is very close to the mark, if not a prophetic warning of what was coming over the last 27 years, and counting.

Directed by Tony Scott, in what I rate as one of his two best films ( the other being Crimson Tide in 1995).
A few years ago I learned Tony Scott is the brother of Ridley Scott, both movie directors.

Enemy of the State could be considered a sequel to The Conversation (1974), a movie where Gene Hackman's character was an employee of the NSA, bugging, recording and listening to conversations of people. In Enemy of the State, Hackman's character is someone who used to do surveillance and tech work for the NSA, but abruptly quit and went off the grid in hiding for 2 decades, and is in all but name the same character 24 years later.
An intensely fast-paced and thought-provoking movie, and at some points very funny.

Enemy of he State, full movie online free at :
https://ok.ru/video/4672910789370 (running time: 2 hours 12 minutes )



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation






And since I mentioned it, and it's also a great movie...
Crimson Tide, full movie online at :
https://ok.ru/video/932229089990 (running time: 1 hour 56 minutes )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Tide_(film)