Other mistake: At the end of the film, Dean can see himself in his TV. He looks up to the fire alerter, assuming the camera filming him is up there. The film camera then also pans up to the fire alerter, indicating the camera is there, too. For this angle, the picture in the TV is wrong, as it is taken from the point of view of the TV.
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.
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Suggested correction: Dean is only assuming the camera is in the smoke detector since that's one of the places he and Brill hid the other cameras. The shot of the smoke detector is just to show the audience what Dean is looking at, even though his guess is wrong.
Brill: The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It's a brave new world out there. At least it'd better be.
Trivia: The cat that Gene Hackman has is the same cat that was in Men in Black, and similarly, the cat is put into a bag in this film just like in MIB.
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.