Enemy of the State (1998)

Tony Scott's thriller makes the late-1990s fear of being watched loud, fast and expensive. Will Smith plays Robert Clayton Dean, a labor lawyer who unknowingly ends up with a videotape of a congressman's murder and finds the NSA taking his life apart to get it back. Gene Hackman's mysterious Brill, the man who helps him run, is a knowing echo of Hackman's surveillance expert in The Conversation from 1974. Of everything here it looks the most dated in its technology and the least dated in its worries. That gap is the reason to rewatch it: the gadgets are clunky, but the idea that your whole life can be pulled up on a screen has only become more ordinary.