Mercury Rising

1998
R
1h 51m

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Bruce Willis and Miko Hughes in Mercury Rising (1998)

Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.

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6.1/10

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- 2 wins total

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Trivia
Miko Hughes spent time with many autistic children at a special school to understand how to portray an autistic child. Bennett Leventhal, head of the child psychiatry department at the University of Chicago, spent six weeks before the shoot tutoring Hughes at a school for autistic children. Leventhal complimented Hughes at the movie's premiere, saying, "even I believed you."

Goofs
On the bank's security camera video tape of Art and Dean crossing the street, knee pads are visible beneath Dean's pants in preparation for his fall.

Quotes
Nick Kudrow: I asked you not to handle the wine, please!
Art Jeffries: You know, it's good to see you've got your priorities in order.
[takes a slug from another bottle]
Art Jeffries: That's better. You're not worried about murdering a nine year-old boy but you're worried about this fuckin' wine!
[he breaks another bottle and Kudrow winces]

Alternate versions
The German TV-Channel RTL cut all of the violence out of the movie, in order to broadcast it on an earlier time spot (8:15 PM).

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Newton Boys/Meet the Deedles/The Proposition/A Price Above Rubies/No Looking Back (1998)

Soundtracks
Evil (Is Going On)
Written by Willie Dixon
Performed by KoKo Taylor
Courtesy of Alligator Records

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5/10

Killed by its own premise

This movie has one huge problem: *its basic premise makes no sense at all*. Killing the kid is in absolutely nobody's interest. His codebreaking skill would be of immeasurable value to the very people who are trying to kill him, while safeguarding the code without killing him would be fairly straightforward. This is so obvious that it essentially ruins the whole movie.

The rest of the movie is OK if you ignore that problem. The performances are generally good, and Miko Hughes is excellent as Simon. There is nothing here you haven't seen a dozen times before, but it's generally well done. It's not worth making any real effort to see this movie, but you probably won't have a bad time if you do.