Mercury Rising (1998)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 29
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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 7
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In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects covert American operatives all over the world, sends an assassin to do away with Simon. Simon's parents are killed, but Simon survives, hiding in a secret closet crawlspace where he's later discovered
Apr 3, 1998 Wide
Jan 2, 2002
Universal Pictures
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Cast
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Bruce Willis
Art Jeffries -
Alec Baldwin
Nicholas Kudrow -
Miko Hughes
Simon -
Chi McBride
Tommy B. Jordan -
Kim Dickens
Stacey -
Robert Stanton
Dean Crandell -
Bodhi Elfman
Leo Pedranski -
Carrie Preston
Emily Lang -
L.L. Ginter
Peter Burrell -
John Carroll Lynch
Martin Lynch -
Peter Stormare
Shayes -
Kevin Conway
Lomax -
Kelley Hazen
Jenny Lynch -
John Doman
Supervisor Hartley -
Richard Riehle
Edgar Holstrom -
Kim Robillard
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At one point, this was titled Mercury Falling, and that is a far more apt name for this ice cold thriller.
There's a lot of action but the thriller part of the movie never emerges.
Surprisingly watchable
Bruce Willis, an autistic kid and lots of explosions. You do the math.
Below average thriller. Not much action, not much character between Willis and the boy, but Baldwin is a good villain.
These people should really know better.
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Bruce Willis stars as an outcast FBI agent whose chance at redemption comes in the form of protecting a 9 year-old autistic boy who managed to crack a high level government code hidden in a puzzle book. The code got cracked, and due to the secrets involved with it, the cracker has to apparently be silenced, and that's where the film fails to live up to some of its potential. The target is a young autistic kid, and I can't really remember anyone challenging the moral question of eliminating the kid given the circumstances. The film sorta toys with the idea of who is more of a villain, but mostly it just relies on being a typical cat and mouse chase thriller.
Willis tries his best with the material, but doesn't do anything remarkable. The same can be said for most of the cast, save for Miko Hughes as the autistic kid, who actually does show some chops with having to play a difficult part with some amount of sensitivity and nuance.
See this if you want, but don't expect much since, despite the premise, it's a rather forgettable piece of work.