13 Movies That Depressingly Predicted The Future

13. The Surveillance State - Enemy Of The State

Tony Scott's 1998 tech-thriller revolves around the government's increasing reliance on ultra-sophisticated surveillance tech in the interest of the ever-ambiguous "national security".

At the time of the movie's release, the extent of the NSA's surveillance powers depicted in the film (namely using satelite imagery to track suspects in real-time) seemed like pure fantasy, but almost two decades later, it's horrifyingly real.

The 2013 Edward Snowden NSA leaks revealed the extent to which the average American citizen is being monitored, bringing to the surface the very same privacy concerns that Will Smith's protagonist Robert Clayton Dean raised in this movie (remember the infamous "Do you jerk off in the shower?" conversation?).

Hell, Gene Hackman's on-the-run whistle-blower is basically the movie's stand-in for Snowden himself (if you add on about three decades of age, of course).