History YMMV / EnemyOfTheState

* HarsherInHindsight: This movie predates the USA PATRIOT Act by almost four years.
** Brill makes a passing reference to a previous operation supplying weapons to the Afghani rebels fighting against the Soviets.
*** The harshest part is that the USA PATRIOT Act ''made everything the NSA did in the movie legal'' (with cause). Except the murders, of course. Convenient, eh?

* OneSceneWonder: Gabriel Byrne as the fake Brill who tries to kidnap Dean before the real deal foils his efforts.

** [[Film/IRobot Will Smith saves a cat while fleeing the destruction of a building.]]

* HarsherInHindsight / ValuesResonance: This movie predates the USA PATRIOT Act by almost four years.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[Film/IRobot Will Smith saves a cat while fleeing the destruction of a building.]]
* MoralEventHorizon : Reynolds and his men have no hesitation to kill a man who was against the NSA project and an innocent girl just to frame Dean for murder.
* {{Narm}} / NarmCharm: The opening title sequence, while trying to portray omnipresent surveillance, ends up looking like a sequence out of ''{{Film/Hackers}}''. The location cards also enter in one letter at a time and are accompanied by futuristic beeping noises.

** The main antagonist, the man who is pushing for an overweaning security state was born on 9/11.

* HarsherInHindsight /ValuesResonance: This movie predates the USA PATRIOT Act by almost four years.

* HarsherInHindsight/ValuesResonance: This movie predates the USA PATRIOT Act by almost four years.

* HarsherInHindsight: This movie predates the USA PATRIOT Act by almost four years.

* The main antagonist, the man who is pushing for an overweaning security state was born on 9/11.

* MoralEventHorizon : Reynolds and his men have no hesitation to kill a man who was against the NSA project and an innocent girl just for framing Dean of murder.

** Brill makes a passing reference to a previous operation supplying weapons to the Afghani rebels fighting against the Soviets. Ironically, in real life it was the US's providing of weapons and training to the Afghanis which enabled the Taliban to carry out 9/11, precipitating the aforementioned USA PATRIOT Act.

** Since the revelations about the NSA's PRISM operation, the film seems ''even more'' darkly prescient.

** Also, they make a point of saying that Reynold's birthday is on September 11th.

* CompleteMonster: Thomas Bryan Reynolds and his accomplices.
** The soldiers employed by the NSA seem more AxCraxy than heartless psychopaths.

* ParanoiaFuel: Invoked by the filmmakers.

* ParanoiaFuel: Invoked by the filmmakers.

*** The harshest part is that the USA PATRIOT Act ''made everything the NSA did in the movie legal.'' Except the murders, of course(I hope). Convenient, eh?

*** The harshest part is that the USA PATRIOT Act ''made everything the NSA did in the movie legal.'' Except the murder of a congressman, of course. Convenient, eh?

** The soldiers employed by the NSA seem more [[AxCraxy]] than heartless psychopaths.

** The soldiers employed by the NSA seem more [[AxeCraxy]] than heartless psychopaths.

** Brill makes a passing reference to a previous operation supplying weapons to the Afghani rebels fighting against the Soviets. [[TheWarOnTerror Sound familiar?]]

* HarsherInHindsight: This movie predates the USA PATRIOT Act by almost four years.

* MoralEventHorizon : Reynolds and his men have no hesitation to kill a man who was against the NSA project and an innocent girl just for framing Dean of murder.