Mercury Rising
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Actor: Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens, Miko HughesDirector: Harold Becker
Brand: Mercury
Producer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Joseph Singer
Producer: Karen Kehela Sherwood
Producer: Maureen Peyrot
Writer: Lawrence Konner
Writer: Mark Rosenthal
Writer: Ryne Douglas Pearson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Mercury Rising
Movie Review: you can't keep a good man down
Summary: 5 Stars
Like many of his classic movies, in "Mercury Rising" Bruce Willis is a man on a mission to save an innocent person from ruthless killers. It includes many fine action scenes and the entire story from beginning to end is always fast-moving and in your face.
The film starts out with Art (Bruce) as an undercover FBI agent inside a bank trying to negotiate with the criminals. He was close to getting the entire bank free of harms way, but when the place is stormed and there is bloodshed Art totally loses his cool and clocks the guy in charge. So much for diplomacy.
After being demoted, Art is put in charge of investigating the mysterious disappearance of Simon Lynch (played the Miko Hughes, the smartass from "Full House.") Simon is a child with severe emotional problems who is incapable of articulating himself in a coherent way, yet he was able to crack the government's top-secret "mercury" national security code. Go figure.
One of my favorite parts has gotta be when Art shows up at Kudrow's (Alec Baldwin) birthday party, unexpectedly. That's what I loved the most about the character that Bruce plays. He did what we all wanted to do and he never blinked once. He just had so much nerve and gall and only had 1 mission on his mind. I thought it was hysterical when Alec Baldwin told him "please don't touch the wine bottles" and it was even funnier when he'd open them up and swig a sip, saying "you don't care about a 9 year-old boy but you care about your f'n wine bottles."
I enjoyed this movie very much because it's not just a typical Bruce Willis movie. It's somewhat sad, yet it's also uplifting and in this movie we get to see another facet of Bruce, his softer and sensitive side which rarely comes out in any of his other projects. He played the role perfectly because like a ship he was both steady and strong and rough.
The plot ties up with Bruce's signature action-filled, theatrical 3-ring circus. If you enjoyed any of the "Die Hard" movies or even "16 Blocks" you will most assuredly like the pace and the excitement of "Mercury Rising."
Summary of Mercury Rising
Take off your thinking caps and toss 'em in a corner, 'cuz you won't need 'em when you're watching this deliriously dumb thriller from 1997. Bruce Willis stars as a demoted FBI agent who comes to the aid of an autistic boy whose mind holds a potentially deadly secret. It seems that by gazing on a puzzle magazine and making order out of a hidden system of numbers, the 9-year-old autistic boy (Miko Hughes) has accidentally deciphered a sophisticated top-secret government code. This makes him the prime target of the ruthless bureaucrat (Alec Baldwin, in one of his silliest roles), and Willis comes to the rescue. This formulaic thriller sets up this plot with a lot of entertaining urgency, but you can't give any thought to Mercury Rising or the whole movie collapses under the weight of its own illogic and nonsense. The redeeming values are the performances of Willis, young Hughes, and newcomer Kim Dickens as a woman who agrees (perhaps too easily, it seems) to aid Willis in his plot to outmaneuver the bad guys. Mercury Rising is not a waste of time compared to other formulaic thrillers, but its entertainment value depends on how much you enjoy being smarter than the movie. --Jeff ShannonSimilar DVD Movies
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