Director Tony Scott combine with the ace producer of the crimson Tide and Armageddon to give we a non stop thriller that start off fast and get even faster . Will Smith play Robert Clayton Dean , a lawyer unwillingly catch up in illegal politics when the hidden video of a Senator 's assination be unknowingly pass onn to he by a old friend . Acadamy award winner Gene Hackman -lrb- Crimson Tide -rrb- and John Voight -lrb- Mission impossible -rrb- also add to the thrill and spill as `` tomorrow 's technology '' be be use today for moniter we every move . a new third-generation cold war have begin in the US government . also look out for the mistake at the end when Dean be flick channel on he tv and see himself on the screen . Dean look up at the smoke detector , indicate that the camera be hide inside , however when he look up , he image on the tv screen also look up , and when he look back at the tv , he be stare at himself , indicate that the hidden camera be not really in the smoke detector , -lrb- as the audience be suppose to believe -rrb- but somewhere in or near the tv in front of he .