Ahhh, Enemy of the State, starring the always wonderful Will Smith, Gene Hackman, and John Voight. An excellent movie, in my opinion, and called by some other critics as "Hitchcockian" because of its "wrong man" theme. Since I did a term paper on Sir Alfred Hitchcock, I saw the theme throughout the movie vauguely (sorry, can't spell), though I thought it was more of a Truman Show from Hell. Will Smith played a lawyer whose friend accidentally caught a murder on tape, then when the NSA (National Security Agency for you peons) dudes (now I'm a peon) find out about the tape, Will Smith's friend gets chased and just happend to find Will Smith in a naughty lingerie shop. Now, my question: What possessed Will Smith's friend to run into the naughty lingerie shop? Did he see him in the shop and run in? If he did, I guess I forgot about that part. Either that, or the half-naked women inside. The only thing keeping the female audience in the theatre was Will Smith's fine self at that point. He could have said something completely unattractive and sickening, like "I drink my own pee" and we still would have been watching. (I hope I didn't insult Will Smith by saying that, because it was actually a compliment.) Anyway, the friend slips Will Smith the tape and runs off to save himself, only to get thwapped in the skull by a fire engine.
So, now Will Smith has a tape of a murder and doesn't know it. This is where the best part of the movie starts. Now comes the part I paid $8 to see: the introduction of Jamie Kennedy's character, Jamie, the NSA computer whiz. Let me tell you, that boy looked sooooo good in this movie, even in those awful turtlenecks. He wore two of them in this movie, one of them was so high and necky that he could have sucked on it the whole time he was wearing it. Oh, how I envied that sweater, even though he looked like kind of, well, how do I say this tactfully...a flamer. Sorry, that's what I think of guys in turtlenecks. Except mock turtlenecks. Those are pretty sexy. (Jamie, wear a mock turtleneck under a sweater for your next public appearance? For me? I love you?) Anyway, he also wore a blue-checked button-down shirt (Scream 2-ish?) with a navy blue shirt underneath, which he looked really good in. Blue is that boy's color, I tell you. Then there was the short sleeve button-down shirt with a T-shirt underneath, which looked good because I've never really seen his arms before, and now I had a better idea of what they would look like wrapped around my body...Then he got to leave the desk and go on a little mission, and he was wearing just a regular (but cool) jacket and jeans. But then, when he went to "The Jar" (Gene Hackman's hideout), he had on one of those dumb ski-caps that make your head look like a penis. I hate those hats. Jamie, I love your head. Why wear such an unflattering hat? At least those glasses looked really good on you when you were pushing buttons and being smart on the computer. [Now I'll start talking to the rest of the audience, not just Jamie Kennedy.] Then, he found out the building was going to blow up! I started panicking and got that nasty knot I got during Scream 2 when he...you know...Then he started running and tripping on things all over the place, and next thing you know, the building was a tower of flames! I sat in my seat with a feeling of despair and tension, and kept telling myself, "You're a loser...He's not dead...You're a loser...You don't even know him and he doesn't know you exist..." Then, his character was back in one of the final scenes, a shootout. I thought, "Great! He's alive!...Oh, sure, now he's gonna be shot!" Well, he was shot, but he lived at the end. And damn, did he look good in that final scene..."We thought it was an STO...Standard Training Operation." Oh, sooki.
Oh, yeah. Will Smith. He got help from Gene Hackman, had a really good dramatic scene when Lisa Bonet died, and lived happily ever after. And he looked really good while doing it!
Here's a picture of Jamie Kennedy during his final scene in the movie:
