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 (3)
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Simon is a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new unbreakable code. This skill renders the new billion-dollar secret code vulnerable, especially if enemies of the United States should learn of Simon's abilities and capture him. Program chief Nick Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) orders the security threat eliminated, but Kudrow hasn't counted on renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) getting involved. As they are trailed by deadly assassins, Jeffries quickly realizes that no one can be trusted. Now time is running out, and he discovers his only hope for survival is using Simon's special ability to bring their adversaries to justice. (official distributor synopsis)
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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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