- Actors: Bruce Willis, Miko Hughes, Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens
- Directors: Harold Becker
- Writers: Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Ryne Douglas Pearson
- Producers: Brian Grazer, Joseph Singer, Karen Kehela, Maureen Peyrot
- Format: NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Mca (Universal)
- VHS Release Date: Oct 29 2002
- Run Time: 111 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 078322530X
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#2,170 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #4 in Video > Action & Adventure > Action Stars > Bruce Willis
- #8 in Video > Action & Adventure > Blackmail, Murder & Mayhem
- #26 in Video > Action & Adventure > Thrillers
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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 Shannon
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Ne vous embarrassez pas de faire fonctionner vos neurones pour regarder ce thriller délirant, vous n'en aurez jamais besoin. D'un grand conformisme, ce thriller réussit à planter le décor d'une manière assez divertissante, mais prière de ne pas trop réfléchir à la portée de Code Mercury, sous peine de voir toute cette construction s'écrouler sous le poids de sa propre absurdité. L'interprétation fait l'intérêt du film : Bruce Willis, le jeune Miko Hughes et Kim Dickens sont parfaits, tandis qu'Alec Baldwin trouve là le rôle le plus idiot de sa carrière. Code Mercury, petit thriller divertissant, est d'autant plus réjouissant que le spectateur peut prendre plaisir à être plus malin que le film. --Jeff Shannon
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favourites!,
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This review is from: Mercury Rising [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Really happy to have this film on Blu-ray. It is one of the better Bruce Willis films made, IMHO!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mercury Rising,
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This review is from: Mercury Rising (Widescreen Collector's Edition) (DVD)
I truly enjoyed this movie. In my opinion, this is one of Bruce Willis's best films.
1.0 out of 5 stars
IQ Falling,
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This review is from: Mercury Rising (VHS Tape)
This one could easily serve as Exhibit B in any indictment of knee-jerk Hollywood anti-Americanism. Exhibit A would have to be a better film.The premise concerns an autistic child who is able to sightread extremely high-order classified ciphers. He's accomplished exactly that with the National Security Agency's latest version, which he's accessed through one of the lamest plot twists imaginable. (They've placed it in a puzzle magazine to beta-test it--no, I'm not making this up.) So great -- the NSA hires the kid and turns him loose on Chinese, French, and other unfriendly ciphers, right? No they do not. Wake up -- this is Hollywood. They send goons out to kill him, which is where Bruce Willis, playing a conflicted law-enforcement officer of uncertain antecendents, comes to the rescue. From there on it's the standard huggermugger--unnecessary hairbreadth escapes, elite assassins who turn dopey at the most convenient moment, all-but-omniscient villains who can't see the obvious trap at the climax, etc. The acting was phoned in. Willis can do many things well, but he can't do conflicted. For some peculiar reason, the guy who fed Buscemi into the wood chipper in "Fargo" has his hair dyed black in this one. All traces of quirkiness evident in his performance for the Coens has vanished here. The sole exception to the overall blandness is provided by the Bloviator himself, Alec Baldwin. Perhaps the film's major offense is the implication that whole scheme is being carried out in support of Iraqi agents working against Saddam. (Kind of getting a jump on Fatboy Moore here.) Baldwin repeats this contention several times during the film, very impressively, too. With conviction, you might say. All in all, this is a film that makes "Enemy of the State" look good. A clearer recommendation I cannot provide.
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