Other mistake: When Will Smith checks into the hotel and his credit cards are invalid, we see that the time is 5:38 and it is daylight outside. The only problem with this is that it is supposed to be around December given all the Christmas decorations. It would be dark then in the Baltimore, not soaked with daylight.
Enemy of the State (1998)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Gene Hackman, Will Smith, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet
After Robert and Brill get captured by Reynolds' men, Robert tells Reynolds that the tape is at a restaurant nearby. They go inside, and it turns out Robert double-crossed them by leading them into a mob den. The mobsters have another tape, one that will incriminate them, and they don't want to give it up. Reynolds tries to get the tape back, thinking it is the one that shows him killing the senator. The mobsters, Reynolds, and his men end up all shooting each other dead while Robert hides under a table. Brill escapes. The FBI storm in and arrest everyone else. We see a short interrogation of two hackers who thought it was all a training mission. Then Robert, back at his house, sees Brill on his TV and knows he is being watched.
More mistakes in Enemy of the State
Congressman Phillip Hammersley: Telecommunications Security and Privacy Act. Invasion of privacy is more like it. - You read the Post?"This bill is not the first step towards the surveillance society. It is the surveillance society."
Trivia: During the brief occasional shots of the satellite you can hear Morse code. The code translates as CQ, which is amateur radio speak for 'is anybody there?' - hardly spy stuff.
Question: Why does Thomas Reynolds want the telecommunications security and privacy act to be passed into law so bad that he has a congressman killed? To advance his career?
Answer: Yes, and to increase the importance of his agency.
David Mercier