Enemy of the State

I kept gasping at how much of this film is a callback to The Conversation - and then Gene Hackman showed up! I swear they used the same cage set for both films. 

The first half is very Hitchcock-y, with the audience and the character both nervously untangling a mystery, but different mysteries. 

The story really gets into gear when Gene’s character comes in: he puts everyone else to shame with his electricity and emotional connection. And the scale change in stakes is palpable. 

Some things that knocked it down a peg for me:

The r climax relied too much on the pronoun game for me to take it seriously. But as Marybeth said to me afterward, you line up the dominos and then you gotta knock them down somehow. 

It’s astonishing how much non sequiter lingerie is in this movie (and tinted 90s sunglasses).