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Mercury Rising

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2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

This is an action film with a lot of emotion behind it. It has a real heart felt story that questions plausibility and true credibility at times but it really hits home as it evokes genuine sentiment and feeling through a brutal world we now live in. This to date is the last great action film staring Bruce Willis. His performance of the dedicated civil servant doing what is right against all odds is admirable. His adversary Alec Baldwin stands for all that is wrong with a system that is supposed to protect our way of life and liberties while sacrificing the innocent trying to protect it at the enrichment of his own ego. At the center is a small autistic boy who supposedly can compromise Baldwin's plans who is being protected by FBI agent Willis who has fallen from grace. In simplest terms it is a film of right and goodness against greed and evil. On that level this film works. This film contains one of John Barry's last great scores as it gives credence to the story by bringing our most tearfully compassionate emotions to the surface while driving the narrative with an impassioned purpose. I like this film a lot I think because it takes the hardened tough good guy hero image and on an emotional level shows what drives him and what's really makes his heart tick.

As the mother of an autistic child, I was intrigued by this movie when I found it while channel surfing. I choose not to comment on the believability or likeability of the plot, but will say instead that the actor who played Simon, the young autistic boy, did an OUTSTANDING job. The writers, apparently, also did some research on the condition. The use of the cards Simon kept pinned to his belt was right on the money. Autistic children comprehend so much better visually, and through the printed word, than they do through listening to people speak. The scene where Simon is spinning wheels on a toy car is also very realistic. My only other comment is on the irony that, in 1998, before anybody figured out or suggested that mercury causes autism (this is a theory first posed in 1999 and gaining more and more credibility every day),the producers had the foresight to name their movie about an autistic boy "Mercury Rising."

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. This moves at a breakneck speed building tension along the way as various covert types try to put a bullet in Willis and companies collective head. "Mercury Rising" is a very entertaining and solid thriller.

This movie has action, suspense, and Bruce Willis need I say anymore. I like his movies and if your a fan like me then this is for you.

Ok here we go. The bad guys are Balwin and a top secret government agency which has an encrypted code for all its agents called Mercury Rising. Well lo and behold a 9 year old Autistic boy breaks this code which was in a puzzle magazine as a test for code breaking geeks. Ummm, somehow this sounds dumber than it really is. Enter now the renegade FBI agent Willis, who somehow gets assigned to investigate the boy's parents murder. (Who were murdered by Baldwin's top secret government agency). Now that is the setting for the clashes which follow. Willis kidnaps the boy to save him from being killed. And then a all too nice of a lady Kim Dickens (who is very cute by the way)befriends Willis, :), and the Boy and helps Willis protect him. Actually Willis (A stranger) shows up at her apt. at 2am and she lets him in. Umm,? There are some very good action scenes. Great 5.1 DD sound in a few places. Overall a relatively good flick. I think Baldwin, Willis and Dickens do a good job. The 9 year old boy came across pretty credible also. Just lean back, relax and enjoy and you won't be disappointed. 3.5 STARS.

This is by far one of the most underrated movies ever and Bruce Willis's most underated movie ever. The little kid in this movie did good acting. Alec Baldwin is was a good bad guy in this movie. This sort of showed a father side of Bruce Willis. I had to buy the DTS mode because it's way better than 5.1 sourround sound. There sure were a bunch of good movies in the year 1998 and this certainly got overshadowed. Buy it action lovers.

"Mercury Rising" is the Bruce Willis/little kid vehicle that came before his success in "The Sixth Sense," and while the premise and the execution of the plot are different from "Sixth," the film manages to show that Bruce Willis can work with an actor of any age. He plays Art Jeffries, an FBI agent who is in over his head at the bureau after a difference in opinion with his superior over a bank heist. Meanwhile, a small, autistic boy named Simon receives a puzzle book, and while reading it, he discovers a secret government code called "Mercury," meant to keep officers in the American Embassies safe from harm. He calls the number that he picks up from the puzzle, and the head of the Mercury project, played by Alec Baldwin, sends one of his henchmen to eliminate the problem. Soon, Simon is found in his bedroom closet by Jeffries after the murder of his parents, leading into a cat-and-mouse chase that spans the entirety of the film. The film contains a high amount of suspense, and although a lot of the mystery aspects of the film are in the norm for the genre, some of the plot contains originality. John Barry's score fits the film greatly, and some of his chords and melodies can be traced back to his previous movies such as "The Scarlet Letter." Actors all give believable performances, and special effects are all the craze when they get to show their stuff. All in all, not a bad film.

Amazon.com's editorial reveiws usually hit the target, but not this time. Anyone who has spent time with autistic kids or adults won't find the movies as "dumb" as the reviewer states. Sure, not all people with autism are savants, as the movie seems to imply. But that aside, Miko Hughes puts in a very believable performace -- easily as good as Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man." Perhaps it's not fair to plead special interests, but the people who made this movie clearly put a lot of thought and study into dealing with a difficult topic, and they deserve credit for it. I was frankly offended by the reviewer's failure to appreciate this aspect of the movie, and I think that most intelligent viewers who are interested in more than just a simple action movie will share my opinion. 4 stars for the movie; 1 star for your insensitive reviewer!

Mercury Rising was a story about an autistic 9 year old boy named Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes,Pet Sematary,Jack The Bear,Kindergarten Cop ) and an FBI agent,Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis,Sixth Sense,Die Hard).One day,Simon comes across a secret code in a puzzle book that his teacher gave him.When Art learns of Simon's ability to crack codes,he realizes that Simon's life is in danger.He battles the FBI to protect Simon's life and develops quite the reputation.I won't give away the ending,but I will say that this is worth watching.I plan to buy the movie as soon as I get a chance.If Bruce Willis and Miko Hughes read this review,you both did an excellent job.If you or anyone else has any comments about my review,my email address is posted with this review.

I really enjoyed this movie. I think this is one of Bruce's best films. This movie will grab your attention from the very beginning. The kid who played Simon, is a truly gifted child actor! He's very convincing in every movie role he plays! He was fantastic in Pet Sematery, and he was only about two years old in 1989! Don't listen to the bad reviews, this movie is great!