Directed by:
Harold BeckerCinematography:
Michael SeresinComposer:
John BarryCast:
Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens, Robert Stanton, Carrie Preston, Peter Stormare, Kevin Conway, John Carroll Lynch (more)VOD (1)
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Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code. The NSA has developed what they believe is an unbreakable code which they call MERCURY. Now they ran a test to see if anyone can decipher the code by putting it in a puzzle magazine. Now Simon Lynch, an autistic boy who has an affinity for puzzles sees it and deciphers it and calls the NSA. Concerned the men in charge call their boss Kudrow and inform of what happened. Kudrow worried what might happen if this gets out orders that Simon be terminated. The man he sends kills his parents but is unable to find Simon and leaves when the police arrive. The police call the FBI to send someone to take a report of Simon who is missing and the man they send Art Jeffries is not exactly in good standing with the FBI because of an incident that occurred recently and is also not exactly OK because of the incident. Art finds Simon, who was hiding and takes him to the hospital. While there, the assassin takes another try but Art saves Simon and they go on the run. (Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
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From the period when Bruce Willis tried working with children (obviously referring to them as his film partners), Mercury Rising is undoubtedly the weakest. What makes it bad is not even that it’s poorly made, but rather the fact that it has nothing to offer. The hackneyed script follows the tried-and-true formula, which is all about allowing the main character to stand out, whose nature the creators could have explored more, as Bruce Willis' acting abilities can certainly handle more than just a self-conscious FBI agent with an inferior job. And having only two people representing the "bad guys" is probably not the right thing to do either, especially upon closer inspection of Alec Baldwin, who doesn't fit his role at all. And the little autistic kid? A completely unused character who serves only as an excuse for his protector to get angry and give the bad guys a good beating every now and then. Whatever way I look at it, I can't think of anything that would make me want to see Mercury Rising again. As I said at the beginning, this film has nothing to offer.
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