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Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who protects a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.
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| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMercury Rising is a Bruce Willis action movie, which means that most of us know what it will be like going in, and the only question is whether it's a good one or a lousy one. Answer: This is a good one. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrHere are the two most obvious problems that sentient audiences will have with the plot. (1) Modern encryption cannot be intuitively deciphered, by rainmen or anyone else, without a key. And, (2) If a 9-year-old kid can break your code, don't kill the kid, kill the programmers. |
| San Francisco ExaminerCraig MarineOne of those good video movies that should do decent box office based on the drawing power of the stars. It helps that there's a fair amount of suspense and some decent gunplay, but there's not much reason to see it on the big screen unless you just love that over-used "whup-whup" sound effect of rotating helicopter blades. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineThe uninspired story elements suggest that, in this current moviegoing cycle at least, even easier-to-please audiences want something new and surprising. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAn anemic time-waster you've seen before that fails to create tension or generate the suspense this genre cries out for. |
| Washington PostStephen HunterIn 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. |
| Houston Community NewspapersGary BrownThere's a lot of action but the thriller part of the movie never emerges. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaAt one point, this was titled Mercury Falling, and that is a far more apt name for this ice cold thriller. |
| Chicago TribuneMark CaroContrived, slapdash and utterly false, this action thriller with a cynically soft center exemplifies the worst end-product of contemporary Hollywood formulas. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe 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. |