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- 1998
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
- 1998
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
Summary Shadowy figures in the National Security Agency target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he has shown the ability to decipher a top secret code.
Directed By: Harold Becker
Written By: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
- 1998
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
- 1998
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
Mercury Rising
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6.2
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Summary Shadowy figures in the National Security Agency target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he has shown the ability to decipher a top secret code.
Directed By: Harold Becker
Written By: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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24% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
37
24% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
36% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
But the real treat is seeing Big Daddy Bruce playing the papa bear part to the little lost boy. Sure, he loves his handgun, but for once Willis seems to enjoy his nurturing side as much as his Glock 19. [3 Apr 1998, p.N53]
Every time the kid looks at a field of numbers and symbols that start jiggling across a screen to clicky music, but not jiggling as fast as his brain, he's exiling the kind of hero played by Willis to the scrapheap of history. [3 Apr 1998, p.D10]
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Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
6.2
24% Positive
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And though young Miko Hughes does a fine job as the traumatized Simon, this ain't no "Rainboy". [3 Apr 1998, p.SE]
In Mercury Rising, the mercury may rise but pulses never do. A promising thriller with tough guy Bruce Willis wearing an ever-more radiant tapestry of bruises on his face, the film ultimately surrenders to the entropy of stale plotting and familiar formula.
John Barry's score, with its reiterated 'autistic kid' theme, would have sounded corny to Ivor Novello, though it's in keeping with the general principle of patronising the audience.
The nuttiest thing about Mercury Rising is that when Alec Baldwin, as the silky-voiced evil defense honcho, explains that he took his cutthroat actions to protect the lives of American undercover agents, he actually sounds quite reasonable. You can just about feel the imbecility rising.
The actors' serious faces are out of place in this hopelessly silly action conspiracy.
