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Enemy of the State

1998 · directed by Tony Scott · 132 min
23,480 feet · Prominence
1,025th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Enemy of the State’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

How this film scores

Draw71

$251m worldwide in 1998 — $507m in today's money.

As released$251mIn 2026 money$507mRank589 of 8,589In 199813 of 165

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise69

Critics 69, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 69.

Critics69 → 35Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy40

Judged directly: Surveillance thriller that reads as prescient.

Verdict40 of 100IMDb7.3 from 272kWikipedia35k views a monthAge28 years

Scored beside it · 1,254 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 71 praise 69 legacy 40averages 60, which places it at23,480 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Will Smith22,710 ftGene Hackman22,250 ft