One of Will Smith's Most Underrated Thrillers Finds a New Free Streaming Home

When people talk about Tony Scott, his flashiest films tend to dominate the conversation: Top Gun, True Romance, Crimson Tide. But tucked inside his late-’90s run is Enemy of the State, a paranoid thriller that landed right as Will Smith was starting to break out as the biggest movie star in the world. Nearly three decades later, the film has resurfaced with a new streaming home on Samsung TV Plus. Released in 1998, Enemy of the State follows Robert Dean (Smith), a labor lawyer whose life collapses after he stumbles into a government cover-up. On the run from the NSA, he ends up paired with Edward Lyle, played by Gene Hackmanin a performance that feels like a deliberate echo of his wiretap specialist in The Conversation (1974). Hackman doesn’t even show up until the midway point, but once he does, the film clicks into a higher gear.